Yeah maybe it's less visible nowadays, but in the past the world was not just Linux and FreeBSD. There were many commercial Unixes which differed from each other and from Linux. And to be portable to such systems you needed to check everything. So autoconf was a crucial tool, not just a fancy noop.
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Yeah maybe it's less visible nowadays, but in the past the world was not just Linux and FreeBSD. There were many commercial Unixes which differed from each other and from Linux. And to be portable to such systems you needed to check everything. So autoconf was a crucial tool, not just a fancy noop.