My normal strategy is too just dump most of their build system and remake it myself in cmake. Even if they use cmake, I often end up commenting out most of it.

My normal strategy is too just dump most of their build system and remake it myself in cmake. Even if they use cmake, I often end up commenting out most of it. If you keep things super simple in your cmake, it all works very well. Writing super simple cmake is also pretty easy, as well. Regardless, this article was talking about internal dependencies, not external ones.