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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 portabili
by Aissen 11y ago
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.
- rwmj 11y agoCross-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_compiler https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Windows_cross_compil...