On Saturday 28 February 2004 07:57 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I have to admit, I have never gained a good sense of how to use the gnu Autotools, though I've spent far more time trying than I have with Ant. TrollTech's qmake, OTOH, is very easy to learn. It may simply be the case that Ant hasn't attempted the more complex things Autotools address. I can see some things in Ant which if not addressed soon will lead to the same kinds of obscurity I find in the Autotools.
Autotools are worthless and add excessive complexity and undocumented (or maybe ill documented) crap to your source tree. If all you want is a good makefile, then I would recommend taking a look at makepp project. Syntax is similar to make but much easier since you do not have to take care of the dependencies yourself. Salman