[felipec]

The Makefiles CMake generates are not distributed in the tarball. So no, we are not talking about apples to apples.

[hulitu]

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.