Matthew Garrett

Awful realisation that I've spent more time running sed over other people's M4 than writing my own autotools code

"But Matthew why didn't you just fix their macros and autoreconf" because I try to keep as much joy in my life as is possible

But hey new rule: If you've written a build system that's not autotools, you owe me a handle of gin because it'll be worse

You're going to get at least one wrong out of cross compilation, build dir != source dir or dist bundles that don't rely on the build host

@mjg59 1/ Nope (ok, was added later, but still) 2/ Nope 3/ Nope. And it still sucks a lot less than autotools would for a project that size.