> Frankly, it is just much simpler to directly work with makefiles agree. pmake (colloquially bsd make though it arrived late in the CSRG era) allows for the

> Frankly, it is just much simpler to directly work with makefiles agree. pmake (colloquially bsd make though it arrived late in the CSRG era) allows for the concept of a 'makefile library' that handles common things (e.g. '.include <bsd.prog.mk>' to build a program if the project directory is laid out appropriately) which I think would have been a much better approach for autotools instead of generating makefiles in multiple stages. Unfortunately the autotools approach is many peoples 1st exposure to anything make-like so they are left with a bad impression of makefile complexity. IMHO pmake also has a nicer and more flexible syntax extension over posix vs gnumake (e.g. can define a dynamic target in a for loop). Unfortunately pmake is not very well known outside of the BSD community.