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Alternatives to Autoconf?

Posted by Cliff on from the dodging-the-complexities dept.

Despairing Developer queries: "Once autoconf was a great way to make widely portable programs. But now when you have to spend more time sorting out incompatibilities between autoconf versions, breaking battles between autoconf compatibility wrappers and configure.in compatibility functions that tries to outsmart each other, and on top of that see the list of dependencies increase (it's not that fun to compile perl on unicos) and performance diving rapidly, what is your escape plan? Is there a drop in replacement for autoconf? Is there something else out there that is as portable as autoconf to use instead?"

3 of 108 comments (clear)

  1. Re:You have been 's CONNED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    STFU, just because you're too stoopit to figure out how scons works doesn't mean it's no good! Fuck packagers, I, as a developer, want an easy to use build system.

  2. Perl? by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perl doesn't use autoconf. It does have script that sort of mimics autoconf, but isn't. Also most Perl extensions use `perl Makefile.pl` to configure themselves.

  3. how about java? by demian031 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    no flame-bait i swear.

    even tho 'write once debug everywhere' makes a great bumper sticker. it doesn't mean it is true. seriously, java is a good answer here.