good post. i agree that the main problem that autoconf solves has gone away. cmake is regularly a pain point. its own version, as well as how un-understanda

good post. i agree that the main problem that autoconf solves has gone away. cmake is regularly a pain point. its own version, as well as how un-understandable and un-debuggable the cmakelist.txt files are. sharing code on unix systems used to be painful. now the whole world is linux. until about 10 years ago, the whole world was 'gcc', but nowdays it is more likely to have a clang/gcc difference than it is to autoconf to make the right header to include.