[andrewf]

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)

[jcranmer]

> 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]

> Autoconf is a perl program

Oof, did not realize.

[akdev1l]

This 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.