Yes, but currently when building from cvs/git its missing.
Umm, nope?
chiyo:~/Pike/7.7/build/linux-2.6.24-20-powerpc-ppc% /home/marcus/Pike/7.7/src/configure [...] config.status: creating post_modules/static_module_makefile config.status: creating modules/dynamic_module_makefile config.status: creating post_modules/dynamic_module_makefile config.status: creating precompile.sh config.status: creating specs <-------------- config.status: creating machine.h config.status: machine.h is unchanged config.status: executing default commands === configuring in modules (/home/marcus/Pike/7.7/build/linux-2.6.24-20-powerpc-ppc/modules) [...] chiyo:~/Pike/7.7/build/linux-2.6.24-20-powerpc-ppc% ls -l specs -rw-rw-r--+ 1 marcus marcus 604 2008-08-10 12:49 specs chiyo:~/Pike/7.7/build/linux-2.6.24-20-powerpc-ppc%
That was with a CVS checkout, and using autoconf 2.61. Do you get different results?