Yeah, you read it right. After expirementing with autotools for a few days, I am proud to announce that the autotools build system (using autoconf, automake and libtool) is almost ready!
Adding an autotools build system (./configure) is in my belief a huge addition, because it makes SDLU much more convenient to build under Linux (mainly because configure does not depend on anything extra installed, other than a basic GNU system).
Of course, there are some things that have to be done first, like extending portability and testing on different GNU hosts (currently it's only tested under Ubuntu and Linux Mint).
I strongly believe that the build system will be ready and in the master repository by the end of this week, if I manage to take some time of studying.
UPDATE:
The autotools build system is now live in the bitbucket repository. Enjoy! (and report any bugs in the issue tracker.
-- Aggelos Kolaitis
