gmake scripts are usually fairly portable to OpenVMS, and there is a decent — though not great — ability to invoke bash build scripts directly.
If I had my druthers here, I'd like a build tool that wasn't a layer atop GNU/Linux/Unix — and that's not to imply how autotools works here is at all bad or particularly wrong, it's just an approach that's a bear to port the tools — and have that (portable) build tool then generate the platform-specific build script, build procedure, build-whatever equivalent.
Conceptually: to move the existing builds from a procedural, interpreted approach into a higher-level and object-oriented approach.
If I had my druthers here, I'd like a build tool that wasn't a layer atop GNU/Linux/Unix — and that's not to imply how autotools works here is at all bad or particularly wrong, it's just an approach that's a bear to port the tools — and have that (portable) build tool then generate the platform-specific build script, build procedure, build-whatever equivalent.
Conceptually: to move the existing builds from a procedural, interpreted approach into a higher-level and object-oriented approach.