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Re:Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing ... by pif on Monday May 02, 2022 @05:41AM (#31232965)
> it's just no comparison to debugging the 1000s of lines of shell code autotools generates

If you find yourself debugging generated scripts, you have done something wrong.

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Re:Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing ... by trasz on Monday May 02, 2022 @08:57AM (#31234545)
Not really - from my experience autotools can’t really be expected to work properly on any system it wasn’t tested on. And it’s way easier to hack the generated script - usually just commenting out the problematic part, as almost none of those scripts generated by autoconf serve any purpose.
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Re:Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing ... by CJefferson on Monday May 02, 2022 @07:58AM (#31233954)
I agree, but I have done things wrong with autotools, then spent hours debugging the generated scripts to figure out what I did wrong.
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