I'm sorry; didn't mean to imply there was anything wrong with CMake, meant more as a joke and to suggest that CMake is a new tool that requuires a learning curve, like anything new, hence people resist, until it becames so prevalent that one gives up resisting and invests the time to learn it. In my case, it was to get CLion's external library interface working so I could jump to definition in headers in /usr/local/include