[necubi]

I’m not sure why you’d say that we’re “moving towards” this sort of build system complexity.

This is 1990s autoconf bs that has not yet been excised from the Linux ecosystem. Every modern build system, even the really obtuse ones, are less insane than autoconf.

And the original purpose of this was not for efficiency, but to support a huge variety of target OSes/distros/architectures, most of which are no longer used in any real capacity.

[ibotty]

This is not part of autotools output. This is part of the backdoor. Not arguing about autotools drawbacks though.

[pelasaco]

I think the point is: In code reviews, if you see a blob like that you would ask for more information. Me as lead developer, I go every monday through all commits on master, and PRs pushed in the last days, because I unfortunately cannot review every single PR, but I delegate it to the team.. nevertheless, Monday, I review the last week commits.. Quite funny that it didn't raise any attention. One can say: "right, its open source, people do it in their free time", ok, fine, but not the people working for SUSE, which for instance allowed this code reach their packages, even though they have multiple review steps there..

[SV_BubbleTime]

> has not yet been excised from the Linux ecosystem

That is my point. I should have written allows and not has.