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Autoconf and configure features that people find valuable

In the wake of the XZ Utils backdoor, which involved GNU Autoconf, it has been popular to suggest that Autoconf should go away. Some of the people suggesting this have also been proposing that the replacement for Autoconf and the ' configure' scripts it generates be something simpler.

Some of the people suggesting this have also been proposing that the replacement for Autoconf and the ' configure' scripts it generates be something simpler. For OpenZFS, this includes various aspects of the (internal) kernel 'API'; for other projects, such as conserver, this covers things like whether or not the system has IPMI libraries available. (There are some people who would say that software should not have build options any more than it should have runtime configuration settings, but this is not exactly a popular position.)

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