Alternatives to Autoconf?

Despairing Developer queries: "Once autoconf was a great way to make widely portable programs. But now when you have to spend more time sorting out incompatibilities between autoconf versions, breaking battles between autoconf compatibility wrappers and configure.in compatibility functions that tries to outsmart each other, and on top of that see the list of dependencies increase (it's not that fun to compile perl on unicos) and performance diving rapidly, what is your escape plan? Is there a drop in replacement for autoconf? Is there something else out there that is as portable as autoconf to use instead?"

Translation (was Re:Ant)

[happyfrogcow]

What kind of ${CRAP} are you writing that need ${YOURLANGSUCKS} anyway?

${MYLANGROXORS}

${FSCKYOU}

I propose...

[k4_pacific]

A new program: autoconfconf

I am struck by the recursive nature of the situation.

Re:mod article up!

[Chris Z. Wintrowski]

...This would help a lot with the creation of graphical configuration tools for source packages. ...

How is a graphical configuration tool going to help anything? You want to pile another layer of crap onto an already burdened autoconf just so you can play with your mouse? What the hell is wrong with you? Don't be such a pussy: type './configure --help', figure out the options on the command line, and stop recommending open source programmers waste their time developing mere gimmicks. Do you work for Microsoft or something?