Preserving generated files

[A.P. Horst]

Hi,

Is there a possibility to preserve the generated source and output file 
generated by the many tests a configure does? In particular the 
"checking for dependency style of [compiler]" does a lot of tests, but 
it is very hard to find out what is going wrong. The compiler supports 
makefile style dependency generation, but configure fails to recognize 
it. I am trying to figure out what goes wrong, but the config.log has 
only a few lines dedicated to this test, and keeps silent on what tests 
it performs and why it fails.
Any other ideas on how to debug this are very welcome.

Arie