Libtool / autoconf is evil

[Alan DeKok]

Aaron Turner wrote:
> It is annoying you need Cmake install to do a build, but I figure 95%
> of my users are installing pre-built packages and the other 5% are
> advanced enough to figure it out.  20 years ago when everyone was
> building everything from source rather then installing binary
> packages, it would of been a deal breaker for me too, but things have
> changed sufficiently that I'm willing to accept it.

  Good point.

> Honestly, if Auto* does what you need, then it's probably not worth
> moving to another system.  I can't say I was "happy" with
> autoconf/automake but it worked and when I got bug reports from users
> I was able to fix them without too much effort.

  Pretty much.  We're seeing more problems now with libtool && libltdl.
 So those are the higher priority for removal.

  Luckily, that looks easy to do.

  Alan DeKok.