AFAIK (20+ years experience with (lib)CDD ;-)) autotools support was 
donated to cdd many years ago, at 2001, 
and it predates Sage.
I'm sure updates would be welcome.

On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 11:40:07 AM UTC, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote:
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> On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 12:24:43 PM UTC+1, Erik Bray wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpf...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote: 
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>> > On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 12:17:08 PM UTC+1, Jean-Pierre Flori 
>> > wrote: 
>> >> 
>> >> We should definitely contact upstream if updating the autotools stuff 
>> >> there is needed. 
>> > 
>> > But do they ship autotools stuff or does it come from Sage? 
>> > 
>> > Old tickets: 
>> > * https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/13026 
>> > * https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15871 
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>> That's what I was unclear about.  I saw those tickets and assumed that 
>> we had been messing with the autotools stuff, and wasn't sure if it 
>> was still maintained by its creator.  But the upstream source tarball 
>> contains the same autotools files so maybe we upstreamed that at some 
>> point, but it originated from Sage....? 
>>
>> I don't know.  It doesn't say in the changelog. 
>>
> From what I see, the current situation is still a mess.
> Yes upstream ships an autotool build system but we heavily patch it.
> We should definitely exchange with them.
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