Last year a new developer faced a nasty build issue with a Curl makefile
growing to fill all the available disk space. After reporting it to
Curl, I learned it was known since at least 2021 and it was suspected to
be an automake regression.
In the end, it turned out that we had barked up the wrong tree and
automake contributor Jan Engelhardt was kind enough to provide a fix in
Curl:
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/73e9e6d767296c5759972d07f2441c8993ccbb9d
There will be no new point releases of Curl 7, so the fix will be
shipped in version 8.
Ilmari
