I've thought about doing that, sometimes when I wait for configure to finish, an autoconf that gives two outputs: one that could be run by Pike, and one that could be run by /bin/sh. The Pike version could be run if there is a pike installed on the system, with much better caches and data handling = way faster.
/ Mirar
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2003-04-23 09:33: Subject: --localdir backwards compatibility
We better write our own Autoconf in Pike!
/ Marcus Agehall (Trådlös)