Componentizing configure.in?

[Rob Browning]

Bill Gribble <grib@linuxdevel.com> writes:

> However, I'd like to throw out there the idea of a more component-based 
> top-level configure.in.  I have worked on projects with multiple
> hierarchical configure scripts, and that's a non-starter ... it just
> takes too damn long to run configure.

Hmm.  I've had the same problem, though I wonder if by making sure all
the sub-configures share the same config.cache, we might be OK.  I
know that autoconf supports that, but I don't know how well it works.
Just a thought...

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