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Autodafe 1.0 Released For Freeing Projects Of Autotools
Controversial free software developer Eric S Raymond has been spending a lot of time recently on the new Autodafe project as a means of free software projects from relying on Autotools
The deconfig tool walks the code tree of a project with an autotools build recipe looking for conditional-configuration symbols that can be removed because they gate C11 or POSIX facilities. The makemake tool reduces a generated Makefile to an equivalent form suitable for human modification and with internal automake cruft removed. Eric S Raymond further noted on Twitter/X:"Autodafe 1.0 is finally here and production-ready, successfully tested in the real world on a large messy conversion even involving (yes!)
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