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by geofft 4236 days ago
Hm. At first glance this doesn't seem too bad: idiomatic autotools usage involves files that are relatively easy to parse and are also relatively declarative, so making a non-autotools buildsystem that's capable of directly reading configure.ac and Makefile.am files seems doable.

Why doesn't this work in practice? Non-idiomatic usage? Custom autoconf scripts?