I'm glad I'm not the only one finding cmake's "magic" approach to software building totally unhelpful, and more on the problem rather than solution side of thin

I'm glad I'm not the only one finding cmake's "magic" approach to software building totally unhelpful, and more on the problem rather than solution side of things. You know there's gone something out of hand if your very meta build tool's build itself takes much longer than the project you wanted to build in the first place.