> Autoconf is the 100% solution that's supposed to work everywhere

> Of course, that imposes the cost of 100% compatibility on every developer, when most would be happy to just build on today's Linux and call it a day.

The reality is that when you use programs built with autotools on systems that aren't mainstream, you'll have troubles. Because the scripts aren't right and were only tested by Linux developers on Linux.

And much of the time, I find it faster and easier to fix a broken makefile than to fix broken autohell.