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Re:How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles by banish-m4 on Saturday April 27, 2024 @08:08PM (#40184762)
Hahaha. Yeap. And project dependency analysis and library feature detection quickly demand the GNU variant, autotools (gasp!), clunky scripts, or something else. Use make for simple things and simple things only.
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Re:How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles by patrickmay on Sunday April 28, 2024 @09:10AM (#40188327)
Eric S. Raymond has a new project to eliminate the need for autotools: https://gitlab.com/esr/autodafe

It appears to give the benefits of autotools with the simplicity of make.

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