How do I use GNU AutoTools?

[samuel ammonius]

Thanks. I've looked at meson's website and it looks amazing. I'm mostly
just glad I won't have to use autotools.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 11:21 AM Mailing Lists <koemail at protonmail.com>
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> +1 for Meson, these other build systems are a bit tedious (especially
> comparatively)!
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> -------- Original Message --------
> On Jul 11, 2022, 8:11 AM, Alexander Schwinn < acs82 at gmx.de> wrote:
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> If you anyhow want to start from scratch, I would suggest using meson.
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> cmake imo is just a different hell / not any better than autotools,
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> Cheers, Alex
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> Am 11. Juli 2022 14:11:43 MESZ schrieb samuel ammonius <
> sfammonius at gmail.com>:
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>> Hi. I hope this isn't too off-topic, but I came from this forum thread
>> <https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=67991#p67991> hoping to find
>> out how to use autotools for a fork of XFCE that I was hoping to make. I
>> have a few questions:
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>>    1. Is it ok if I just use CMake or is there a reason that XFCE uses
>>    autotools (is the reason just that CMake wasn't available when XFCE was
>>    created?)
>>    2. If CMake is a bad option, how do I actually use autotools?
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