The good and the bad with Autotools, Autoconf, Automake and Libtool for open source programmers

  2008-05-10 04:00:06
There are few people who would deny that autoconf, automake and libtool have revolutionized the free software world. While there are many thousands of Autotools advocates, some developers absolutely hate the Autotools, with a passion. Why?Let me try to explain with an analogy. 
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