willfe

I'm one of several folks responsible for maintaining a project that's been around for a good number of years (since the late 1990's at least). I've been given the opportunity to make improvements to it wherever I see room for it. One of the most annoying parts of it is the build process for various systems, since it just uses Makefiles (written by hand, from what I understand of the project's history) to detect a few different platforms and adjust macros accordingly. For certain environments, including Cygwin, building is a chore.

I'd prefer to migrate it to GNU's autoconf/automake/libtool suite of tools to make building the thing much easier, and to expand the platforms the project is supp