sudden realization that the relationship of autotools with target system, and target compiler, is fundamentally adversarial
Indeed. And CMake doesn't detect anything. It just has a huge set of (wrong) hard-coded rules.
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sure it detects stuff, if you're using check_c_code_compiles and friends
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as for the compilers? half of any configure.ac is detecting mingw without spelling out "mingw"
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which is just stupid, because you end up with faux feature checks that are just dogwhistles
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Okay, let's agree that everything is horrible and broken and sucks, then :)
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ehhh. my point is with *good* cmake rules you can do what autotools can never do
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I agree that badly written cmake rules are easily worse than well-written autotools, sure
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Cmake’s language is just rubbish. Without Stackoverflow you can never get anything working.
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well that's just wrong. I wrote a lot of nontrivial cmake code and I never use SO
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Detecting anything meaningful with auto is such an arcane skill that so few can pull off.
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