<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hughsie" class="u-url mention">@<span>hughsie</span></a></span> done that many times, yeah</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I have found that it is often the case with infuriating build systems / tools that &quot;the only winning move is not to play.&quot;</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I actually prefer to write a 20 line meson.build for random old projects rather than deal with millions of generated lines of autoconf... Plus, out-of-source-tree building works...</p>

<p>i&#39;m done. it works. it took me about 5 minutes</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@krans" class="u-url mention">@<span>krans</span></a></span> i would rather spend 100 hours with ISE than 1 with libtool</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Oh come on, that&#39;s surely unfair </p><p>Xilinx ISE exists</p>

<p>you know what, i need to compile 9 (nine) c files</p><p>i don&#39;t need a configure script or libtool</p><p>i can just feed them to the compiler by hand</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> AAAAAAHHHHHHHHtotools</p>

<p>currently in a situation where `./configure` tells me to call `make distclean`, but running `make distclean` just runs `./configure` again</p>