Autotools

Do the expert programmers at /prog/ use the GNU Autotools?

Also, are the Autotools really the de facto tools to create software packages?

>>10
Jam is ENTERPRISE XML BULLSHITE.

>>12
In most cases, what are you building? A single executable file, probably? Put the thing into the toplevel directory. Anyone who can figure out how to run make should know what to do when they find a program sitting there afterward. Except for Gentoo users.

Your makefile shouldn't be trying to install shit; that's the job of whatever native packaging system the OS or distro provides. The only thing you the developer should be worrying about is getting the code to build.