[sr #111044] autoconf should assert existence of all subsidiary tools at startup

Follow-up Comment #1, sr #111044 (group autoconf):

To elaborate on that, people may use the output of such tools to enable or
disable certain compiler features. An example of such a case was found when
building OpenVPN [0].

This was also reported in 2008 [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/disconnect3d_pl/status/1774747022362325263 (probably
change twitter to nitter to get access without logging in)

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2008-03/msg00033.html


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