HPR3040: Why use GNU Autotools

Summary: GNU Autotools is a build system that helps you distribute your code in a predictable and reliable way. Build systems offer many benefits, including: Standard and automate-able build process hooks into packaging systems (RPM, DEB, Slackbuilds, Flatpak, Snap, and so on) version reporting build for various OSes you get lots of code to handle every possible corner case, for free with a single configuration, you can build your project as the developer, build it for packagers, and enable users to build it for themselves Next up: how to use GNU Autotools