.emacs, automake and cmake.

Programmer Question

A long time ago I wrote my .emacs. I used a shell script to compile and join the whole thing.

I am now rewriting the thing, and something occured to me. When compiling I access several environmental variables telling me things eg the full name of my diff program. Rather then reading environmental variables, i could use some autoconf like tool to tweak the .emacs files and them compile them.

The problem is that autoconf is just plain ugly. I considered cmake, but documentation is very poor especially on constructing your own build system.

Suggestions?

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