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Looking forward to the point where this can build autoconf. It's great that the generated ./configure script is portable but if I want to make substantial chang
by andrewf 2y ago
Looking forward to the point where this can build autoconf. It's great that the generated ./configure script is portable but if I want to make substantial changes to the project I need to find a binary for my machine (and version differences can be quite substantial)
- akdev1l 2y agoThis is going further into the hell that is shell-generated scripts that culminated in the xz-utils attack. We would benefit from steering away from auto-generated scripts. Autoconf included.
- jcranmer 2y ago> Looking forward to the point where this can build autoconf. Autoconf is a perl program that turns (heavily customized) m4 files into shell scripts. How does a C compiler help there?
- andrewf 2y ago> Autoconf is a perl program Oof, did not realize.