> I, too, think that the autotools should be replaced with a more user-friendly, > contemporary alternative. CMake is definitely a good choice.
> Alternatively, Meson (https://mesonbuild.com/) [...] cmake compounds the problems in automake and in the long run might be even worse. meson is quite sweet - a small paradigm shift, and my efforts at porting significant packages have worked out well. PS: when people diss autotools -- and I am the first one to do so -- they should remember that it performs remarkably well in one area: longevity. I am able to build projects from the 1990s with virtually no changes thanks to autotools's stability. Still, I am starting to migrate things to meson.
