On Jul 19, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Jul 19, 2016, at 12:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>> Considering all the various build systems we encounter in MacPorts, from 
>>>> autotools to xcodebuild to cmake to scons to qmake to manually crafted 
>>>> Makefiles, my impression is that autotools sucks the least.
>>> 
>>> I guess we can just disagree on that point :)
>> 
>> Dare I ask which build system you prefer?
> 
> Is it OK to say I hate them all? ;-)

Yes!

> What I would choose to use would largely depend on specifics for the project 
> (and yes, I've used autotools for stuff before because it was the 'least bad' 
> choice).
> 
> See also: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

Or to sum it up with a sentence a friend and I pass back and forth whenever 
something is broken: "Everything is awful."


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