Ways to speed up configure

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi all,

I'm currently playing around with kaffe's CVS on Cygwin, and I find 
myself spending hours running the configure script over and over again, 
since Cygwin on Win98 is not very pleasant ;) The trouble is that I can 
do a full build of kaffe on linux on the same PC in 15 mins, including 
the configure run, but it takes at least 2 hours for configure alone to 
run through on Cygwin, when it doesn't crash.

So I'm wondering about ways to speed up configure, in particular on 
Cygwin, or ideas how to improve the configure.in checks for headers, 
functions, libtool etc. I'm using autoconf 2.58.

cheers,
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