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they are not. people who are using the wrong build system are a shit show instead. autotools is great, meson and bazel similary. but people quirking around wit
by rurban 5y ago
they are not. people who are using the wrong build system are a shit show instead.
autotools is great, meson and bazel similary. but people quirking around with cmake alone, or conan or other toys cannot be helped much.
- hoseja 5y agoAre you trying to ignite a flamewar.
- rurban 5y agono, autotools critics just don't know what they are talking about.
- tetromino_ 5y ago> autotools is great I assume you are joking. Autotools is a slow-as-molasses system (running autoreconf could take half of your build's wall time!) designed for 1980s unix wars (with support for anything not resembling 1980s unix C programs being an awkward bolt-on), complete with an unusually hostile syntax and multiple levels of inefficient interpreters, all optimized to encourage cargo-cult copy-paste programming. It was barely tolerable at the turn of the century, when everyone used it for lack of a good alternative. For a while, its one saving grace was decent support for cross-compiling. But using it for a new project today is insane.
- shrimp_emoji 5y agoWhat's wrong with CMake? D: