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gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> In your specific case, a similar trick could work. A C fewliners around 
> strftime() would be small, simple and reliable. Strftime is C89 for most 
> features (don't use timezones and you'll be fine). The C code could compile 
> with $(CC) directly into an executable in one step, without any extra 
> configuration.

Windows is very different, in many ways.

Also, cross-compilation support is a lot of fun to implement in a
configuration system. Fairly mature and popular alternatives such as
cmake still do not come close to autotools+pkg-config.


//Peter