On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Stefan Krah <stefan@bytereef.org> wrote:
Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@...> writes:
> I hate most tools that ship with configure scripts because 70% of the time
some stupid test does some stupid thing wrong and gives the worst errors,
29% of the time the configure system doesn't pick up my options correctly,
and 1% of the time it actually *works*.

That's just not true.  Also, the small build issue that triggered
this thread is already tracked here:

   http://bugs.python.org/issue22625


You've evidently had better luck than I usually have.
 

It seems more productive to me to fix that rather than rewrite the
build system.  Users don't have an unlimited tolerance for pointless
churn.


Lots and lots of projects have moved from autotools to about everything else.

It's slow, annoying, and generates huge files (the 5k-line configure.ac generates a 17k-line configure script). And largely pointless, since nowadays few like it anymore.
 


Stefan Krah

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[ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your program. Something’s wrong.