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Autotools vs cmake is just no contest from a developer’s perspective. I set up one project with autotools a few years back and the experience was horrible: lot
by bertr4nd 6y ago
Autotools vs cmake is just no contest from a developer’s perspective. I set up one project with autotools a few years back and the experience was horrible: lots of weird incantations, obfuscated syntax, piles of m4 macros to do what feel like straightforward things, and just a general feeling that I was being forced to learn obtuse technologies for basically no purpose.
Cmake isn’t always the easiest thing either but it’s a vast improvement over autotools.
- josephcsible 6y agoThere's definitely one advantage to autotools, though: anyone who wants to compile a program that uses CMake needs CMake on their system, but you don't need autotools to compile a program just because its build process was set up with it.