CMake!

[Braden McDaniel]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Callum Lerwick <seg <at> haxxed.com> writes:
>> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 15:56 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
>>> If you want upstream to stop using libtool altogether, find a suitable  
>>> replacement and convince the Automake developers to use it instead.
>> Why the h8? He was speaking in the context of "the state of the art" and
>> in my oh-so-humble opinion CMake is it. The whole of the Autotools stack
>> is very much... not.
> 
> +1
> 
> The suggestion to convince the automake developers to use something other than 
> libtool is pointless, because automake should also go away, it's at least as 
> obsolete, buggy, unable to maintain backwards compatibility, annoying, a 
> massive time waster at build time and a major PITA for developers to code with 
> as libtool is. The whole autotools stack sucks. It always did, we just didn't 
> have anything better. We now do, so why are people still using autotools?
> 
> Some of the major design failures of the autotools:

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And we're done.  This thread has become a place for build system zealots 
rant without any regard to finding a pragmatic solution to the problem 
at hand and without consideration for those who might wish to do so.  Enjoy.

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