cmake is pretty bad, too, though at least it runs on Windows. (And I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s got quite the same goals as Autotools, though their scopes overlap in many respects.)<p>I&#x27;ve never met anything build-related, scope large or small, that wasn&#x27;t somewhere between &quot;PHP&quot; (horrid, workable if you&#x27;re careful, will rot your brain in the long run) and &quot;Cthulhu&quot; (beyond evil, insofar as normal human modes of comprehension can be said to apply).<p>I wonder if this is some kind of, like, Heart of Darkness shit.