On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:53:06PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> larry price wrote:
>
> > Truly, this is a work of ancient evil,
> > men were not made to know such things
> > and the effort of comprehension drives them mad.
>
> autoconf/automake have exactly one advantage over everything that has
> come after: They work on just about any Unixlike system that's been
^
run and at least half-way
> distributed since 1980, with no additional software needed.
>
> Because they target such a primitive environment, they are ugly.
>
> Ancient ugly, yes. Ancient evil, no.
the problem is they are not very modular, so the information about all
these systems is scattered throughout the code. that's kinda evil.
the true evil is the way people actually use the autotools, and expect
that because their projects build correctly on Linux, they will
everywhere because the autotools will do this for them ... yeah, right.
the autotools also rely on gnu extensions to m4.
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