Alternatives to Autoconf and Autotools? [closed]

Answer 1

I have had a look at CMake, which looks like a good alternative unless you are cross-compiling. If you are doing native compilation, you should try it

Answer 2

One more auto* replacement - mk-configure. Docs can be found here

Answer 3

I have heard good things about CMake which tries to solve the same problems. Here is the wikipedia article