autotools is pretty great for the end-user who wants to compile your code or the distributor who wants to package it up for Debian or whatever. It’s a crawling

autotools is pretty great for the end-user who wants to compile your code or the distributor who wants to package it up for Debian or whatever. It’s a crawling horror for the programmer that wants to use autotools as the build solution for their code however, which is the topic under discussion.