You can build software like vim, emacs, ninja, bash, git, gcc etc -- here's a list of software I got to build with this technique: https://github.com/ahgamut/su

You can build software like vim, emacs, ninja, bash, git, gcc etc -- here's a list of software I got to build with this technique: https://github.com/ahgamut/superconfigure https://github.com/ahgamut/superconfigure The superconfigure script is just a wrapper around the usual configure script used to build your software, supplying flags like --enable-static.