Hello, I pushed a commit [0] that aggregates all the `Makefile.am's under `lang/' as a single one (as I recently did in `vm'). It should make `automake', `config.status', `make', etc., faster, while also making the tarball smaller.
Other candidates for aggregation include `ice-9' and `examples'. Let me know if there's any objection to pursue this wonderful endeavor. Thanks, Ludo'. [0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=6c59f901499937fe3779ef1f543646754f843679