[TUHS] Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register

[Luther Johnson]

I just avoid tools that build with CMake altogether, I look for
alternative tools. The tool has already told me, what I can expect from
a continued relationship, by its use of CMake ...

On 06/19/2024 10:01 PM, Scot Jenkins via TUHS wrote:
> "Greg A. Woods" <woods at robohack.ca> wrote:
>
>> I will not ever allow cmake to run, or even exist, on the machines I
>> control...
> I'm not a fan of cmake either.
>
> How do you deal with software that only builds with cmake (or meson,
> scons, ... whatever the developer decided to use as the build tool)?
> What alternatives exist short of reimplementing the build process in
> a standard makefile by hand, which is obviously very time consuming,
> error prone, and will probably break the next time you want to update
> a given package?
>
> If there is some great alternative, I would like to know about it.
>
> scot
>