distutils equivalent of config.status?

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I like that configure always generates a config.status file for me.  That
way if I need to reconfigure an app with slightly different settings I can
just grep config.status for "configure", paste, then tweak.  Does/can
distutils do that for me?  I'd like it to be something either automatic or
at least under user control.  I don't want the setup.py author to control
this feature.

Thx,

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