> How will you write config.status and config.log in a serial manner? Use a > bunch of little files and assemble them at the end? If the configure > script aborts with an error, where will the user find the diagnostic > information?
Maybe with trap? Remember that there is still a configure shell script that acts as a driver. The most problematic thing is whether the speed increase on multi-processors will be coupled with a speed decrease (untolerable given current autoconf's speed!) on uni-processors. Paolo