On 2008-Feb-3, at 17:19 , Enrico Weigelt wrote:
One of the major problem of autoconf is that It tries to guess around
lots of things, and this often fails or is very unclean (it requires
*really great* care to produce good code with it). In fact this has
nothing to do with portable programming, but working around
uncountable
of target specifics.
Autoconf is nothing but a stinking rotten corpse that lives only
because the cult of GNU adherents cannot (no, refuse to) grok the
concept of POSIX.
The last time I ever had the requirement to use 'configure' -- that's
'configure', not 'autoconf' in all its splendor -- was circa 1992. And
that was solely thanks to Sun unbundling the C compiler, leading to
the insane collection of command invocations needed to build something
as simple as cat.c.
