TBF they only switched to building from git after they were notified of the backdoor yesterday. Prior to that, the source tarball was used.

Haven’t tried it, but might be worth looking into: https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA

Maybe to be more inclusive towards macOS or BSD users.

Sometimes it does take a few seconds for me as well, but not even close to a full minute. That must’ve been on an HDD, right?

The explanation is most likely incorrect though. A more obvious cause of this error is that the current working is the root directory (/) and that they’re logged in as a non-root user, thus trying to create the file /woman without sufficient permissions.