6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Autotools first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I gave up on autotools and wrote a small c program that compiles the project... Never again will I waste hours diagnosing the latest inexplicable autotools script error.”
regret · personal · GartzenDeHaes · 2022-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The biggest problem I ever encountered with autotools when working on a distributed open source project was that every developer must have the same version”
regret · production · PaulDavisThe1st · 2022-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“autotools. never again. ... This was such a pain in the ass to get working in autotools.”
regret · personal · agentultra · 2013-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“fully integrated with GCC and autotools and so on”
neutral · production · rwmj · 2018-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our project has ended up with one of the most complex build processes I've worked with (and I've worked with autotools).”
neutral · production · archgrove · 2017-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched the build system to autotools in order to get away from the brittle and complex bootstrap system”
neutral · production · asermersheim · 2015-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?