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Well if can't be made to work on Windows then it's not a worthwhile replacement for autoconf because autoconf does every job on all environments except Windows already, why need a replacement?

To do the job on Windows, I use CMake and CMake is my autoconf replacement on Windows. Actually, if I was willing to spend some time to configure MinGW & MSYS to make autoconf work on Windows, I wouldn't need to use the CMake either .)

> To do the job on Windows, I use CMake and CMake is my autoconf replacement on Windows. Actually, if I was willing to spend some time to configure MinGW & MSYS to make autoconf work on Windows, I wouldn't need to use the CMake either .)

Why not just use cmake and be done? Less dependencies?

Every time I use cmake I wonder how I ever managed to use autotools or (even straight Makefiles). Especially when things like 'ctest' just work and are waiting for me to write unit-tests to utilize them.

I think that most projects use autoconf only because you need autoconf to use automake.

The URL query suffix is pretty humorous.

Autosetup – a replacement for autoconf