automake

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I cannot actually believe that somebody thought that automake and all 
its brethren were the best solution to the problem of installing things 
in C. 

I mean, it's not like it removes all external dependencies since you 
have to have the right version of automake installed (and slight 
differences in version can make a big difference), it's not easy to grok 
let alone write and requires lots of tweakignt o get it to run right on 
different platforms.

I started this week actually looking forward to coming into work - I had 
stuff I really wanted to do. By this morning I was doing subconcious 
work avoidance. The reason - M4 macros. And a bit of XS but mostly M4 
macros.

From the dire documentation, crap syntax and just general square peg 
round hole nature of the whole thing automake is truly hateable 
software.

• automake Simon Wistow 14:21 on 13 Jan 2004
  • Re: automake peter 18:18 on 13 Jan 2004

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