GNU Autotools considered harmful 0
The bulk of the material on the web concerning GNU autotools, from libtool up through automake and autoconf, concern the brokenness of the system. I hold that this system for producing spaghetti is intrinsically harmful to software development progress.
The autotools, by design, produce incomprehensible, misleadingly indented, highly redundant code which has to be reverse-engineered […]


