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		banish-m4 on April 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles Hahaha. Yeap. And project dependency analysis and library feature detection quickly demand the GNU variant, autotools (gasp!), clunky scripts, or something else. Use make for simple things and simple things only.

patrickmay on April 28, 2024 [–]

Eric S. Raymond has a new project to eliminate the need for autotools: https://gitlab.com/esr/autodafe

It appears to give the benefits of autotools with the simplicity of make.

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