From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-10-01T01:42:48+09:00
Subject: Re: autoconf for ruby

> This is a little harsh. You may have issues, as I do, with the usability
> of autotools. They may not be right for this application. But they do
> work, and there are literally thousands of packages that attest to it.

Yup.

The worst part is that they're hard to understand; however, there's
not much to be done about it and still run on  a system with nothing
but a posix shell and a C compiler.