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You don't even need autotools for those simple things though.

• lmm 11y ago
  You don't need autotools, but autotools is the consistent way to do it; the "installed base" is large enough that any sysadmin knows how to deal with autotools (and will have to for many years). Writing your own custom check, even if that check is much more concise in and of itself, makes it harder for a sysadmin to understand your project build than just doing the same thing as every other project.