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I suggest that everyone defending Autotools in this day and age actually reads one of these blogs (and check the date on them!): http://freecode.com/articles/s
by janoc 11y ago
I suggest that everyone defending Autotools in this day and age actually reads one of these blogs (and check the date on them!):
http://freecode.com/articles/stop-the-autoconf-insanity-why-we-need-a-new-build-system http://freecode.com/articles/stop-the-autoconf-insanity-why-...
http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/autohell/ http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/autohell/
That should give you the idea why Autoconf/Automake setups are past their sell-by date. For more than a decade.
- amyjess 11y agoCMake is so wonderful. There's no reason to use it over autotools.
- lmm 11y agoI'm not unaware of those. Much of the first article's claims are simply false, and the second article's claims that CMake breaks less often than auto* are, uh, not borne out by my experience. (CMake is by no means the worst though; if you must use something non-autotools CMake is probably the best option). The facts simply don't match the rhetoric.