Living in the age of handcrafted makefiles?

Hey,

I just wanted to jump on some open source development under Linux.

Is there any dev out there who can help me out beyond:

./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install?

What development environment should I use? Isn't there anything that manages the .cpp files and a meakefile comes out? What do you do if you code for Unix/Linux?

I just miss the simplicity of .dsw and .dsp files...

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