As Paul Schlie wrote:
Personally wouldn't mind if all the reconf/doXXX scripts
disappeared in favor of an updated configure/make.
reconf is just a helper to make it easier for the user to run
autoconf/make/foo/bar in the correct order. At least *I* can never
remember which one to run first. It is currently also a helper to
pick up the correct autofoo version, as the auto tools seem to be
proud of breaking their API every now and then.
You don't need the do{conf,make} scripts at all. (Ted Roth recently
wrote me he never used them all the time.) They are again only
helper scripts to descend into a subdir, and start the ../configure
from there, or the ${MAKE} within the subdir resp.