Yeah, I concur. I've had miserable experiences with cmake. The autotools have a butt-ugly implementation, but generally work pretty well, and are fairly simpl

Yeah, I concur. I've had miserable experiences with cmake. The autotools have a butt-ugly implementation, but generally work pretty well, and are fairly simple to use, within their domain. That's the issue, really ... each of these build systems (including the autotools) seems to have a sweet spot where it works pretty well, but can be a misery outside it. None of them (that I've encountered) are even close to being universally good. Pick your poison wisely...