Stefan Teleman wrote:
>
> yes auto* kind of sucks. can you name one build system which sucks 
> less ?

Actually I'd like to ask you the opposite question : can you name one 
build system which sucks *more* ? I'm genuinely interested in the answer.

> i'm not even aimimg for "it works so well, it's like butter". 
> imho, auto's popularity is not rooted in its absolute value, but in 
> its relative value (it sucks less than others).

Or more likely, that it's based on 'make' and sh, which every unix 
platform has installed by debault.

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