I see Autotools as sort of cool if you're porting to a new platform - the tests find out what works and if that's not enough then you have to make some effort to get around it. If you're lucky, however, you put your autotooled code on some completely new OS/hardware and it just builds.
Nowadays the proportion of people who are porting the code is probably much smaller but it's still a way of keeping code working on unix with various compiler, architecture variations.
IMO cmake just includes windows more effectively - for autotools you'd probably be forced down the cygwin route. I find it a bit easier to work with but it's still a nightmare from hell sometimes.
Nowadays the proportion of people who are porting the code is probably much smaller but it's still a way of keeping code working on unix with various compiler, architecture variations.
IMO cmake just includes windows more effectively - for autotools you'd probably be forced down the cygwin route. I find it a bit easier to work with but it's still a nightmare from hell sometimes.