Not if the project is written well. Yes, dependency hell is a thing, but there are ways to deal with it and make good code. Autotools will straight up tell yo

Not if the project is written well. Yes, dependency hell is a thing, but there are ways to deal with it and make good code. Autotools will straight up tell you version x.x.x of library y is required, and as long as that's available, the problem is solved. Dependency hell is a thing in other languages too -- try to compile a really old Java project sometime. I spend most of my time working deep in the internals of some things that are 10+ years old running even older versions of some highly (and often badly) modified linux kernels. The well written C/C++ projects definitely stand out.