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		ridiculous_fish on May 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern CMake short tutorial and best practice How do you use create a portable non-trivial project with make? How do you do discover what libraries, headers, functions, etc. are available?

mcguire on May 27, 2018 [–]

That's what the autotools are for. Yes, they're horrible. The problem is horrible and the autotools are worse. But they work.

ridiculous_fish on May 27, 2018 | [–]

Autotools do work, but what autotools user can sneer at cmake? So I guess OP is using something else, which is why I asked.

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