Re: Future plans for Autotools

[Adam Faiz]

Hi,

I want to share an interesting perspective that's overlooked and something that 
the Autotools is capable of fixing:
https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57415-fantastic_build_system_failure_modes_and_how_to_fix_them

All the examples in the video are a result of targets underspecifying their 
dependencies, but the bug is invisible due to make's timestamp-based nature 
rebuilding lots of things, including the unspecified dependencies of the target.

Does using autotools avoid this problem?
Are there other approaches to ensuring correctness apart from make becoming 
stateful(like keeping track of changes in file attributes in addition to mtime 
to check if it's up to date)?