> Whether it still makes any sense in 2023 a different matter... IMHO, it still makes sense in 2023. Suppose you want to ship & build your program on the lates

> Whether it still makes any sense in 2023 a different matter... IMHO, it still makes sense in 2023. Suppose you want to ship & build your program on the latest Ubuntu, OpenWRT, 5 year old NetBSD or whatever SunOS user might be running in his basement. In that case, Autotools is your only bet without you having to run all those OSes to test if your programs build correctly. If you scan through GitHub, most projects support only the "latest" whatever because modern build systems aren't capable of anything else without significant workarounds. And you get that for free with a few autoconf & automake expressions. They are not perfect, but the problem they are solving is nasty.