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I see what everyone is saying about autotools, and I never envied those that maintained the config scripts, but as an end-user I miss the days when installing a

by livrem 3y ago

I see what everyone is saying about autotools, and I never envied those that maintained the config scripts, but as an end-user I miss the days when installing almost any software was as simple as ./configure && make && make install.

humanrebar 3y ago
Running that command is simple, sure. The development workflows when that doesn't work is full stop horrible. Also the basic workflows for the alternative build systems have maybe ten more characters to type. It's not bad.