Reading further about meson/ninja, I may have to try it for rawproc. Geesh, after a year I had finally figured out autotools…
Thing is, I’ve done this a couple of times now, most recently for cmake, and I’ve always come back to autotools for two reasons: 1) it does it all, and 2) it’s the predominant build system in the libraries upon which I depend, so my autotools files work ok with them. Even with autotools, there were times I almost reverted back to my hack Makefile, which is still in the source tree.
Well, I need some retirement projects…