‪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.

1) GHC's --make
2) Hand written Makefiles
3) People not trying to save time for themselves by using shitty tools but making it painful for others