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if gnu autotools was rewritten in rust it would actually be fast and it would compile safely

@pernia@cum.salon Autotools is the build system, it has nothing to do with compiler "safety".

@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.

@phnt@fluffytail.org @pernia@cum.salon I mean most GNU people agree with you that if you build something from source you should really be able to build it from source and not use generated configure scripts and such. This is not a problem with Autotools but this is just people using Autotools wrong.

@phnt@fluffytail.org @pernia@cum.salon Also you should never commit generated configure scripts to your repositories. That's just bad practise.

@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