[courier-users] Re: Courier 20050203

[Sam V. <mr...@co...>]

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.