[pjmlp]

Or I don't know, people actually bothered to learn them.

[wizzwizz4]

Learning something doesn't stop it being terrible. One time I ran `cmake`, and forgot to run `sudo -k` beforehand. It reconfigured my system.

[pjmlp]

That has more to do with sudo than cmake.

[wizzwizz4]

This might be an unpopular opinion, but compiling a program into a local directory shouldn't try to install packages globally. `make install`, I could understand doing that.

I had no idea that cmake would do this, after reading quite a lot of things about cmake v.s. make and how to write various makefiles for them. I posit that the C build tools are fundamentally hard to comprehend.

[pjmlp]

Any build tool can do whatever they feel like.

Blindly trusting it will lead to the same outcome, regardless of the programming language ecosytem.

[charcircuit]

Sure, but should it? Do you really want nasal demons from your build tool?

[pjmlp]

Due to the success of build tools like Gradle, build.rs or any other one that packages a Turing complete language to steer a build, apparently many want such daemons on their homedir.