Escape from GNU Autohell!
I've set up a page on my web-site titled "Escape from GNU Autohell!" about the evils of the GNU Autotools (GNU Autoconf/Automake/Libtool and other GNU auto-brain-damages) and why you should convert to a good alternative such as CMake. The page converts a list of the many disadvantages of the GNU Autotools, some refutation of common arguments against CMake, and some links.
And lo and behold, some time after writing the page I spent hours dealing with yet another Autohell problem: "Mandriva's libtool causes "make install" of xine-lib-1.1-hg to fail". I actually had to build the Mandriva libtool several times to find the offending downstream patch, and libtool's "./bootstrap" script was so slow that I could finish running "make" and "make install" in xine-lib while waiting for it to finish. And it says a lot because xine uses GNU Autohell which slows down the build process considerably. Eventually, I found the offending patch after several hours, and I wouldn't have finished on time if I didn't cancel the "make check" test in the .rpm.
Autohell must die!