Comment by fmajid

No, but if you are doing something like rebuilding a distro's worth of packages from source from scratch, the configure step starts to dominate. I build around 550, and it takes around 6 hours on a single node.

Most checks are common, so what can help is having a shared cache for all configure scripts so if you have 400 packages to rebuild, it doesn't check 400 times if you should use flock or fcntl. This approach is described here: https://jmmv.dev/2022/06/autoconf-caching.html

It doesn't help that autoconf is basically abandonware, with one forlorn maintainer trying to resuscitate it, but creating major regressions with new releases: https://lwn.net/Articles/834682/