Hi:
I agree that autotools is a difficult and obscure system that works by dark
magic. Unfortunately, autotools does work everywhere, not just in most
places, which is why it gets my vote.
I don't think there is currently a place where waf does not work.
I used waf in both linux and windows and i am really impressed with the
tool. I don´t like python, but
life is much more easy if we can use a "normal" programming language.
Besides, autotools is the defacto build system for G* things, so i think
vala should use it.
Sorry, but that is not an argument for using or not using a build
system. You choose a build-tool to make your live easier as a
developer. If you know all the magic of autotools, fine use it. If you
don't know it, I don't think you should start learning it. Take a look
at the config.log file of a random project and look at what autotools
is checking, many are just absolute. (I think nobody cares anymore
about the maximum length of the command line arguments.) A more modern
build system does this more optimized and produces much faster builds.
I totally agree.
someone build software with M4 or shell?. Congratulations for him !!!.
Regards.
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