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Post #2027344
2026-04-14 03:32 UTC
@diegovsky I agree that it's painful to get working but I also think the problems it was built to solve just aren't relevant in the modern era. I care about Windows, Linux, and macOS. I don't care about 40 different proprietary Unixes. Autotools is built to deal with the latter.
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@diegovsky@bolha.us 2026-04-14 03:45
@malwareminigun not sure why my autocorrect butchered so much of what I wrote. in any case, I totally agree! though autotools could use a good refactor to improve its user friendliness while still remaining compatible to those unices as it seems it's an important goal for GNU