if gnu autotools was rewritten in rust it would actually be fast and it would compile safely
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@SuperDicq @pernia Autohell gets compiled with m4 which is a notorious place for hiding malicious things. This is also why you should never trust a configure script in a release tarball and re-create the whole autohell boilerplate from scratch.
@SuperDicq @pernia Issue is that everybody does that, because regenerating that blob is arcane knowledge no end user should be expected to know.
@phnt @SuperDicq its a shitpost, you fucking subhuman spastics
@EdBoatConnoisseur @pernia @SuperDicq It has outlived it's usefulness a long time ago. A hack created when every unix-like system did things completely differently. If you want a trip down memory lane, look at the: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/refs/heads/master/config.sub
