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by felipec 803 days ago
No, not all build systems are the same. CMake doesn't rely on generated scripts like autotools does.
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Rochus 803 days ago
CMake - as autotools - is a meta build system; it e.g. generates make files, which are essentially scripts. Also CMake itself is essentially a VM with a scripting language. Both CMake and Make are Turing complete (and dynamically typed, as mentioned). And yes, not all build systems are the same; e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY has a statically typed specification language and intentionally avoids a Turing complete language.
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felipec 802 days ago
The Makefiles CMake generates are not distributed in the tarball. So no, we are not talking about apples to apples.
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hulitu 801 days ago
The OP was talking about complexity:

> These tools are generally much too complex. I don't think that e.g. CMake builds are easier to understand and analyze

From my experience (as a non programmer) CMake is much hearder to debug than autotools.

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