Post #1140230

2026-04-14 02:09 UTC

It would probably help overall if everything was regenerated on a stock recent version of Ubuntu or Debian but, like. I can't have that being part of this pull request.

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@malwareminigun@infosec.exchange 2026-04-14 03:20

@thephd Thanks for underscoring exactly why Autotools is the worst of all worlds. Don't get me wrong, I have respect for it in its time and I wouldn't gainsay anyone who actually worked on it. But in the modern era it's just awful.

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@wako@fosstodon.org 2026-04-14 07:12

@thephd no it would not help, please don't waste your time doing that. There are changes in newer versions which aren't necessarily compatible with how GCC does things, so updating to newer versions of the tools needs to be carefully audited to check every change to every generated file across the whole GCC tree (and maybe coordinated with gdb and binutils). It's a major undertaking, not just "hey I updated everything for you, here's the patch". It's not just inertia.

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