"Instead of fiddling around with autotools madness..." --- in my years of packaging software I have found autotools to be the least maddening of all build tool

"Instead of fiddling around with autotools madness..." --- in my years of packaging software I have found autotools to be the least maddening of all build tools. Autotools is weird for developers, but it's remarkably consistent and easy to use for users (such as packagers).