cmake is pretty bad, too, though at least it runs on Windows. (And I don't think it's got quite the same goals as Autotools, though their scopes overlap in many respects.)

I've never met anything build-related, scope large or small, that wasn't somewhere between "PHP" (horrid, workable if you're careful, will rot your brain in the long run) and "Cthulhu" (beyond evil, insofar as normal human modes of comprehension can be said to apply).

I wonder if this is some kind of, like, Heart of Darkness shit.