mtd-utils: Swtich to autotools based build system

[Riku Voipio]

On 29 July 2016 at 12:19, Martin Pluskal <mpluskal at suse.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-07-28 at 23:04 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> You can find the whole series on:
>> https://github.com/sigma-star/mtd-utils.git autoconf_25072016
>>
>> Thanks,
>> //richard
>>
> Hello

> definitely autotools - issue with custom makefiles is that they often
> ignore conventions, when trying to enforce distribution specific things
> one has to go through them, in case of mtd-utils for openSUSE [1], to
> use distribution specific flags and have verbose build following has to
> be done:

Autotools have their annoyances, but at least they are familiar
annoyances. So for Debian this would be prefferable too.

Riku