Autodafe: "freeing your freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools."

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ST - Simple Terminal

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Spack

> <i>Are we talking about the same autotools?</i> Yes. Instead of figuring out how to do something particular with every single software package, I can do a <i>--with-foo</i> or <i>--without-bar</i> or <i>--prefix=/opt/baz-1.2.3</i>, and be fairly confident that it will work the way I want. Certainly with package managers or (FreeBSD) Ports a lot is taken care of behind the scenes, but the above would also help the package/port maintainers as well. Lately I've been using Spack for special-needs compiles, but maintainer ease also helps there, but there are still cases one a 'fully manual' compile is still done. > <i>Suffice it to say, I prefer to work with handwritten makefiles.</i> Having everyone 'roll their own' system would probably be worse, because any "mysteriously failure" then has to be debugged specially for each project. Have you tried Spack? * https://spack.io * https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

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