alt Hacker NewsCompiling software in modern unix systems used to be a solved problem: “./configure && make && make install” should always be the gold standard.
Compiling software in modern unix systems used to be a solved problem: “./configure && make && make install” should always be the gold standard.
> solved problem
autotools is horrifying. I'm not claiming that there is an obviously better way to solve the problem that it tries to solve, but it is horrifying.
FTR, I have much more experience with cmake, which is also horrifying. (Maybe there is no non-horrifying way to solve this problem?)