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Rust crates can run arbitrary code at build time: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html

> Build scripts communicate with Cargo by printing to stdout.

Oh lord.

Wrote an entire crate to clean up that mess (and provide traditional autoconf-ish features for build.rs): https://crates.io/crates/rsconf

Geez, thank you.

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