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Re:A Simple Makefile for Medium-Sized C/C++ Projects by flohofwoe on Friday August 26, 2016 @10:29AM (#12366503)
This only works in the Unix world, on Mac only for command line tools (but only after installing autoconf and make), and not at all on Windows unless you install a complete Unix environment (cygwin or mingw).
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Re:A Simple Makefile for Medium-Sized C/C++ Projects by slrz on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:59AM (#12367114)
Why would it only work with command line programs on the Mac? That's definitely not true, unless something changed very recently.

Also, you don't need autotools itself to build a autotoolized program. The generated configure script is portable sh.

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Re:A Simple Makefile for Medium-Sized C/C++ Projects by _RPM on Friday August 26, 2016 @01:34PM (#12367841)
Not really. the end user doesn't need autotools installed actually. To build the configure script from the "configure.in" file, you need autotools. Go ahead and try!
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