People will complain about CMake and then have a 5 minutes autotools configure step that checks whether your compiler can include <stdio.h> and if sizeof char is 1 by running serial bash executions with a new process each time.
November 8, 2026 at 12:26 PM
People will complain about CMake and then have a 5 minutes autotools configure step that checks whether your compiler can include <stdio.h> and if sizeof char is 1 by running serial bash executions with a new process each time.
As the guy maintaining hwloc, I'd be happy to use anything better than autotools for portable projects but there isn't anything :)
November 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
As the guy maintaining hwloc, I'd be happy to use anything better than autotools for portable projects but there isn't anything :)
I mean if you’re saying that autotools can be good if you go and undo all the built-in checks and fix them properly, then I’d still *wonder* about your sanity, but at least I’d agree with the competence, lol. But that wouldn’t be autotools, that’d be something else.
November 8, 2026 at 5:51 PM
I mean if you’re saying that autotools can be good if you go and undo all the built-in checks and fix them properly, then I’d still *wonder* about your sanity, but at least I’d agree with the competence, lol. But that wouldn’t be autotools, that’d be something else.
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Yeah, I can understand complaints about CMake but if your proposed replacement even hints about autotools I’ve already lost respect for your technical competence as it relates to build systems. Leave it in the 80s where it belongs, if you don’t like CMake use Meson or something.
November 8, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yeah, I can understand complaints about CMake but if your proposed replacement even hints about autotools I’ve already lost respect for your technical competence as it relates to build systems. Leave it in the 80s where it belongs, if you don’t like CMake use Meson or something.
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Not a day has gone by where I miss the old autotools-based build system for Principia. Big pile of crap duplicated across platforms that I reworked into a 200 or so line CMakeLists - it has grown a bit since then (I later merged the Android ndk-build system into CMake too), but it's been […]
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November 7, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Not a day has gone by where I miss the old autotools-based build system for Principia. Big pile of crap duplicated across platforms that I reworked into a 200 or so line CMakeLists - it has grown a bit since then (I later merged the Android ndk-build system into CMake too), but it's been […]
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I make them! I am the main active maintainer for GNU autotools these days. I think that they're not that bad.
November 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM
I make them! I am the main active maintainer for GNU autotools these days. I think that they're not that bad.
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what I would really like is Erlang with a modernized runtime, I’m a huge fan of the overall design (though prefer Elixir ergonomics) but BEAM just feels like an archaic codebase to work in. autotools and ancient C code and the like.
October 21, 2026 at 5:36 PM
what I would really like is Erlang with a modernized runtime, I’m a huge fan of the overall design (though prefer Elixir ergonomics) but BEAM just feels like an archaic codebase to work in. autotools and ancient C code and the like.
If I'm adding a build system dependency for a C project, I think I'd rather depend on Zig than CMake or GNU Autotools
October 19, 2026 at 5:43 PM
If I'm adding a build system dependency for a C project, I think I'd rather depend on Zig than CMake or GNU Autotools
building flatpak since they switched to meson, and wow their scripts just don't understand a system which uses /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib for 64-bit libraries... the older autotools flatpak versions didn't have this problem lol
October 7, 2026 at 2:24 AM
building flatpak since they switched to meson, and wow their scripts just don't understand a system which uses /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib for 64-bit libraries... the older autotools flatpak versions didn't have this problem lol
many of the complaints i see about autotools are based on issues improved or resolved years ago or someone's personal preference for python-centered environments rather than posix-based ones.
i have to keep so many build systems' deps working now. i used to only need bash, make, & common utils...
i have to keep so many build systems' deps working now. i used to only need bash, make, & common utils...
October 7, 2026 at 3:12 AM
many of the complaints i see about autotools are based on issues improved or resolved years ago or someone's personal preference for python-centered environments rather than posix-based ones.
i have to keep so many build systems' deps working now. i used to only need bash, make, & common utils...
i have to keep so many build systems' deps working now. i used to only need bash, make, & common utils...
SDL_mixer: [SDL2] ci, msys2: change autotools target from i686 to x86_64.
SDL_mixer: [SDL2] ci, msys2: change autotools target from i686 to x86_64.
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September 28, 2026 at 7:37 PM
SDL_mixer: [SDL2] ci, msys2: change autotools target from i686 to x86_64.
SDL_image: [SDL2] ci, msys2: change autotools target from i686 to x86_64.
SDL_image: [SDL2] ci, msys2: change autotools target from i686 to x86_64.
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SDL_image: [SDL2] ci, msys2: change autotools target from i686 to x86_64.
SDL_image: [release-2.8.x] ci, msys2: change autotools target from i686 to x86_64.
SDL_image: [release-2.8.x] ci, msys2: change autotools target from i686 to x86_64.
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SDL_image: [release-2.8.x] ci, msys2: change autotools target from i686 to x86_64.