Recently, we changed the build system of Bongo – we’ve moved away from autotools. This isn’t to say that autotools is necessarily that deficient, but the new CMake system we’re using is a lot more suitable for our kind of project. This has brought some immediate benefits – much simpler build system, much quicker compiles and installations (‘make install’ in particular is now much faster), and a slightly simpler source tree. We can also now build binaries out-of-source, which is a huge boon.

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