, the build system

Introduction to
In March 2006, the program beat out several competitors and was selected to be the build system for 4, replacing the autotools-based system that had used from the beginning.
A introduction to page is available on the Community Wiki. Basically, instead of running make -f Makefile.cvs, then configure, then , we simply run and then .
has support for . A few features of were really features of the underlying buildsystem, including configure-flags and do-not-compile. When equivalent features are available, they are provided. For instance, the equivalent to the configure-flags option is cmake-options, and the do-not-compile option is also supported for as of version 1.6.3.