Re: ./configure fails to link test program due to missing dependencies

> 
> I sometimes wonder whether we should move on and discard one of the
> three build systems we have: plain GNU Make, autoconf and CMake. And
> from these three I'd rather want to throw the autoconf-based thing away:
> 
>    - The Makefile is probably what most people use, so throwing it out is
>      a no-go right now.
> 
>    - CMake is really useful because it has support for IDEs and
>      alternatives to GNU Make like Ninja, which builds Git way faster
>      than Makefiles. It also has support for out-of-tree builds, which I
>      find rather useful.
> 
> So is there a path forward to move CMake support out of contrib/, make
> it an officially supported way to build Git and then throw away the
> autoconf-based infra? I'm not the biggest fan of CMake myself and very
> much prefer Meson, but we already have it wired up and thus I'm trying
> to be at least a bit pragmatic.