> but tools like CMake or Meson do a better job at this, in my opinion. Not much experience with Meson, but as a package maintainer, I really hate cmake. It's

> but tools like CMake or Meson do a better job at this, in my opinion. Not much experience with Meson, but as a package maintainer, I really hate cmake. It's got the most of my "why isn't it calling it to pkg-config properly" debugging hours. Maybe it's easier to write, but finding what a specific option does through the forest of macros and pages of "this can do 10 different things" documentation and how it interacts with the rest of the system is not my favourite thing...