Thank you for not using autoconf

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Fri, 31 May 2013 14:46:51 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 31 May 2013 10:43:17 Jon Schneider wrote:
> > Thank you for making this work and please don't let anyone tell you to
> > start using GNU autoconf and friends. They're absolute crap for most
> > packages when cross building.
> 
> not to go way off topic for this list, but that's not really true.  autotools 
> tends to work a lot more reliably than $random-build-system-of-the-day.  i 
> spend more time fixing non-autotool packages to cross-compile properly than 
> autotool ones.

Completely agree.

As far as cross-compilation is concerned, autotools-based or
CMake-based packages are *way* much easier to handle than any
hand-written build system.

Best regards,

Thomas
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