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Can you Make it Better? Exploring the CMake Debate - Incredibuild (www.incredibuild.com)
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[–] lmemsm@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Wasn't thrilled with CMake when I was unable to build it without having to have a working copy of CMake already installed to build it with. It's also now so complicated to build, it won't build on older versions of some compilers. Directories it searches for libraries and includes are always wrong on my systems and I'm always having to override that information. Personally, I really like CDetect and use that in place of CMake and GNU autoconf/configure any time I can.