Lloyd Zusman writes:
And yes, beginning with 0.48, the configure script did get somewhat longer.
It's really out of my hands. I don't like myself how bloated autoconf and automake has become. But, that's the devil you know, and there are no better build toolchains out there.
Well, I think that there is a way have all of the pieces of a multi-component package re-use the system-specific configuration settings that are determined in the intial "configure" step in the topmost directory.
There is, and this is done already.
Unfortunately, most of autoconf isn't that smart. Only small pieces are.
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