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Re:Autotools Mythbuster by Aissen on Thursday December 17, 2015 @10:09AM (#10751859)
The big problem is that no one did a better solution. All alternatives are missing one or more crucial features of the autotools (most prominent being portability). And that is sad as well.
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Re:Autotools Mythbuster by rwmj on Thursday December 17, 2015 @10:35AM (#10752038)
Cross-compilation is another. When I was building packages for the Fedora MinGW (Windows cross compiler[1]) project, it was mostly trivial to get things working if the package used autotools or cmake, and an impossible nightmare for everything else.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Windows_cross_compil...

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