> Linking is one of the easiest and most broadly supported features of C environments on every platform. And build systems are one of the most varied features

> Linking is one of the easiest and most broadly supported features of C environments on every platform. And build systems are one of the most varied features of C environments. I've seen large projects (e.g. OpenSSL) take weeks of effort to integrate into build systems. Suffice to say, no one wants to try and merge patches in afterwords. Nevermind the number of source trees I've seen with copies of some old version of OpenSSL source, ugh.