Michael Pratt

autoconf-archive is preparing a new release (possibly because I bugged them about it hehe) so waiting a little bit, then we wont need those 2 patches

testing with CI a better way to disable man pages build

@PolynomialDivision ready for review again 👍🏼

all dependency tracking does is try to figure out whether there are things make should *not* do, like the GNU manual says, if youre building something for the first time,...

when the build system decides to recompile something, the whole build directory for that package is deleted and replaced first (beginning of STAMP_PREPARED rules) so whatever dependency tracking info is...

@PolynomialDivision do we know why bpf-headers failed? it seems strange, but looks unrelated to autotools

I had saved the previous state of the PR in another branch, if it works the old way then we know something's wrong here https://github.com/mpratt14/openwrt/tree/autotools-2022-old (would need to revert some...

> I'll just mention that only wget is in prereq-build.mk for some reason. i have a commit in my huge RFC that handles this

the Perl stuff is very fancy, but I don't think it's necessary, and its a little complex we should be able to handle that part with Make consider the situation...

I still think prereq-build is a great way to handle it, maybe I didnt explain well enough optionally check for aria first, then curl, then wget, first successful one gets...