and then, you know, and someone runs ./autoconf or autoreconf, and it constructs the sort of the infrastructure, the skeleton of your build system. And then you give it to your user and they're able to just do ./configure make, make install. And that was relatively predictable. There may have been exceptions here and there, but that was kind of a beautiful way of doing things. Now, I guess it probably wasn't the most beautiful way of doing things, because as I've said, AutoTools syntax is a little bit strange. Like it takes some getting used to. I mean, everything takes getting used to, but AutoTools, I guess, took a little bit more getting used to maybe, arguably. And so other people, somewhere, some people decided that they needed their own build system, which I identify with. I get it. I totally get it. To this day, I don't use anyone else's script to build Slack builds, except my own, called Sport Slack Ports. And I just do that sort of because I wrote it and I can, and it's just (7/54)
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