> 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 f

> 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.