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On 06/03/2011 08:23 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<isaq5g11eti@news2.newsguy.com>, Michael Wojcik wrote:
>> Used properly, autoconf works just fine on Windows - or, at any rate,
>> as well as it works anywhere. (Like Joshua I am not particularly
>> impressed with autoconf, though it's not quite as thoroughly
>> brain-damaged as some of its fellow GNU build tools, such as libtool.)
>
> Can you offer anything that works better?

I submit <language>, where <language> is your favorite interpreted 
and/or bytecode-compiled language and thus deprecates the need for a 
tool whose primary purpose is figuring out exactly what machine it's 
running on.

> That would certainly not be true with the vast majority of Free Software
> written in C/C++. Which is the main kind of C/C++ code that I deal with.

I'm sure that outside of GNU or FSF-blessed programs, there are a lot of 
C/C++ programs that wouldn't compile on Unix-ish-but-not-Linux 
platforms, like OpenBSD or Solaris.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth