Nope. As someone who really detests automake, you can probably guess
why that would be so.
And, since every directory underneath winsup has different configuration
requirements, it really doesn't make much sense to merge them. I really
don't see a big deal here. There's nothing broken that requires fixing
as far as I can tell.
I see, well I suppose that is one way to look at it. Anyhow, are the
gettext m4 macros (part of the gettext package) installed on
sources.redhat.com? The reason being that there is no point in
reinventing the wheel when a perfectly good set of macros are already
defined. I ask only because I assume you will regenerate configure and
aclocal.m4 from my changes to configure.in.