On 16/03/2015 19:24, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Stefan Krah
<stefan@bytereef.org
<mailto: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.

Luck doesn't enter in to it.  More likely a bad workan always blames his tools?

    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
<http://configure.ac> generates a 17k-line configure script). And
largely pointless, since nowadays few like it anymore.

Perhaps everybody should move to MSVC, that way at least everything would be consistent :)

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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