You believe far too much what's written somewhere on the net without checking it by yourself.
As I have said, I am not proficient enough to judge the critics of this article. I cite it in case that Georg or you knows what the author is talking about. Anyway, my own experience with autotools has been bad (intimidated by m4 macros, slow configure, frequent and mysterious rebuild etc) so I do not have to trust this article to get rid of autotools. BTW, I use scons alone on all platforms now. I find that DESTDIR is still working in a wrong way. It *replaces* prefix (DESTDIR/bin/lyx) rather than prefix it (DESTDIR/prefix/bin/lyx). I am going to change it, but how autotools handle this on windows? You know, "c:\dest_dir\c:\program files\lyx" is not a valid path. Bo
