an update to automake-1.11?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> a) it will cause some moderate stir-up to those packages whose upstreams
>>> are still abusing the autotools.
>>
>> s/ab// ;-)
>>
>> Why can't we just move to a better build system with higher focus on
>> backwards compatibility?
> 
> Because
> a) the autotools are not as bad as you in your want to make them appear.

Sorry, but any build system where you can't patch the build system 
without risking the sky falling *is* that bad.

Why is it that to build a cmake-based project, it is a given that I run 
cmake, but to build an autotools-based project, I am expected to fear 
and dread and avoid-at-all-costs running autotools? Do you /really/, 
honestly not see anything wrong with that?

As Conrad noted, "[the] phobia of regenerating an auto-generated script 
just goes to show how completely broken autotools is."

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