> Maybe the autotools a relatively good idea. However, on projects that use
> them, they should never be needed by anyone else but the developers. (Why
> does ./configure insist on checking for them? The generation has already
> been done, otherwise ./configure wouldn't exist!)
> 

I swear that is a bug in the configure script.

The whole point of ./configure is to create a Makefile that will work.  If you
have played with things like Imake or any of the old UNIX tools (edit this file
if you have a x86 running Foo UNIX) you would appreciate autotools.

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