In the late 1990s, the most common method for distributing a package was by providing its source code as a tarball. You essentially had to run ./configure and m

In the late 1990s, the most common method for distributing a package was by providing its source code as a tarball. You essentially had to run ./configure and make on every package. I believe ./configure does some of what the OP did in a clever way, checking for locally installed alternatives, etc. It’s still pretty cool, though. I didn’t think a malloc replacement would significantly improve performance.