yeah, I'm one those who still think autotools is the lesser evil compared to cmake. No need to tell me how wrong I am.
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I have mixed feelings about Autotools. Its creators deserve credit for helping to usher in the explosion of open source in the late 90s and early 00s, but the lack of first class Windows support has made my life painful from time to time.