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Re:Autodafe: Tools for freeing your project from the clammy ... by CJefferson on Sunday April 07, 2024 @02:51AM (#39958741)
OK, maybe "not work well for distributions"?

Looking at Debian, they are distributing a series of patches to the Makefile. Getting away from autotools by having every distro patch your makefile might still be better than autotools, but I'd hope we might be able to do even better?

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Re:Autodafe: Tools for freeing your project from the clammy ... by francescovv on Sunday April 07, 2024 @03:18AM (#39958875)
> Debian (...) are distributing a series of patches to the Makefile.

Where do you see that, sorry? I'm looking at the "Download Source Package" section here:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/stterm

...and the only patch on there is debian/patches/0001-fix-buffer-overflow-when-handling-long-composed-inpu.patch, which doesn't touch Makefie.

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Re:Autodafe: Tools for freeing your project from the clammy ... by CJefferson on Sunday April 07, 2024 @05:11AM (#39959465)
I wasn’t sure what the package was called, so I searched for ‘suckless’, and found this, with two Makefile patches.

https://sources.debian.org/patches/suckless-tools/46-1/

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