[PureParadigm]

Couldn't agree more. I often have to install programs from sounce, and dynamic linking, header files/include paths, etc. make the C build system extremely unreliable. It's often more of a trial and error process ("which library is it going to be missing next") than a methodical one. I've spent countless hours hunting down why libfoo.so isn't loading correctly, or why some random function is undefined at the compile stage.