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The author also seems not to have discovered 'make configure' and the horrors of the automake/autoconf toolset and the m4 macro language.

• tpoacher 2y ago
  Sure but these are completely orthogonal to make. Might as well complain about gcc. If anything, it's an argument for making better use of make's own features for configuration in the first place.
• instig007 2y ago
  what are those horrors about?
  • deepspace 2y ago
    Have you tried writing (or even just reading) a configure.ac script?
    • instig007 2y ago
      sure, and there's lots of documentation around it, that's why I asked for examples of the horrors.