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> the GNU build system is far from simple Which is why there's alternatives – cmake, waf, …

• bandrami 12y ago
  > Which is why there's alternatives – cmake, waf Gah. Because I want to drop a metric ton of python code into my own source tree just to build. (gnulib is bad enough...) Personally I like make. I understand it. I've used it for something like 20 years now. If there are problem domains it doesn't work for, they aren't problem domains I encounter. (Like so much of Linux software in the past 5 years or so, I find myself saying "this seems like an interesting way to solve a problem I simply don't have".)
  • creshal 12y ago
    > Gah. Because I want to drop a metric ton of python code into my own source tree just to build. (gnulib is bad enough...) Each their own poison. Personally I don't like them either, but pretending it's autoconf or curl|sh is an oversimplification.