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by davexunit
3793 days ago
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All of the supposed replacements usually have a better interface but way worse functionality. Even just simple things like setting the installation prefix and finding shared libraries don't work as well or are left out. I do a lot of distro packaging work, and the GNU build system is by far the easiest to deal with. What the Autotools could benefit greatly from is a new UI. We can all agree that M4 sucks big time. |
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Im honestly curious why anyone still uses these tools.
Ive heard the 'alternatives do not work as well' argument before, but no one has ever managed to articulate to me exactly what it is that premake/cmake lack?
Is it literally just building debian packages in a moderately convenient manner?