90% of the time if a project uses CMake I'll look for an alternative as I can count the amount of times I've had hassle free compilation with it on both hands.

90% of the time if a project uses CMake I'll look for an alternative as I can count the amount of times I've had hassle free compilation with it on both hands. It's a perfectly fine build system that does handle a lot of weird cases, but I've found reliability wise it's far flakier than standard make.