‪Autoconf and make‬

Obsolete shit forced upon us by our ancestors, amIrite?
Why does every peace of crap C program I compile in Linux have to check for a Fortran 95 compiler? There's thousands of LOC in the final makefile doing shit like working around obscure bugs in versions of csh from the 80's.

I know there must be better shit out there. Auto-dependencies, platform independance, clean syntax, intelligible error messages.

Autoconf works fine on practically any platform. Is there a valid reason to throw it away and reinvent the wheel? ``thousands of LOC in the final makefile doing shit like working around obscure bugs in versions of csh from the 80's'' is a good thing because it means that the fucking thing will build even if my system happens to use '80s csh.