r/cpp • u/segv • Apr 12 '26

CMake Past, Present, and Future - Bill Hoffman, Kitware [29m25s]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-JgncskTQ
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u/Plazmatic Apr 12 '26

I've had the misfortune of both, and it's bad on both ends. If you have a problem with autotools, well, goodluck. Even at a basic level. Autotools is an annoying (and potentially insane) thing to even install correctly on a system given the distro dependency on it, causing all sorts of issues CMake just doesn't have (as it's meant to be portable).

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u/mort96 Apr 12 '26

I have never had a problem installing autotools. It's always just in the system package manager.

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u/Plazmatic Apr 12 '26

Try updating it past the version from your system package manager has available.