Il giorno dom, 31/01/2021 alle 15.16 +0100, Zelphir Kaltstahl ha scritto: > > > However, if anyone told me a good reason to also use autotools to > manage > a build process of my code, and I can get it working and understand > how > to do it, then why not.
One good reason could be that your Guile based project wraps some C library, like guile-git In that case, if you want to support shipping your project to non guix platforms, the services of autoconf (for testing if the C library is available on that platform, in which version, if it has this and that functionality) could be useful And this goes not only with wrapping C libraries but also with extensions If your project doesn't deal with any C code, the reason to use the autotools is for installing it in a way that it's available to all the users on a Unix machine And finally, it could help distributions in packaging it These 2 points could be true for the Guile build system too, I don't know Hope this helps
