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Zac Medico wrote:
> Isn't that just a consequence of how autotools works? Do you have a
> better alternative?

Maaaybe letting the package manager know how to run autotools if 
necessary?  There's already built-in autotools knowledge in that econf 
is in practice autotools-specific.  On the other hand, the eclass logic 
isn't trivial, so unless a simplified subset would be adequate for this 
usage it's probably best left as it is.

The point I was trying to get at was that it seems a bit heavyweight to 
rely on a whole eclass for a minor use-case, as well as a bit 
error-prone to expect people to remember it every time, but maybe that's 
the least bad option after all....