Well, I must admit I know nothing about autoconf/automake, therefore I do not see how they would fit with theide build process. Means it is a bit hard to express any preferences at this point
Mirek
autotools makes it easy to kind of shrink-wrap binaries onto any number of subtly different varieties of (mainly) POSIX ABIs. autotools plays a significant role in proliferation of Linux's self-incompatibilities.
Since this is an ISV anti-feature, it would be overkill, at best.