Follow-up Comment #1, sr #111044 (group autoconf): To elaborate on that, people may use the output of such tools to enable or disable certain compiler features. An example of such a case was found when building OpenVPN [0].
This was also reported in 2008 [1]. [0] https://twitter.com/disconnect3d_pl/status/1774747022362325263 (probably change twitter to nitter to get access without logging in) [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2008-03/msg00033.html _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?111044> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
