[Feature request] Consider making configure a wrapper around the other build rules

I have no idea how many projects use configure + something other than make, but I know that QT uses configure + ninja for its build process.

Rather than trying to hit the moving target of adding a configure rule for every build tool, It seems like it would be useful to be able to just say you want a configure step before running a particular build tool.

Start by reviewing the existing configure and build-tool rules in the repository, especially how configure-make and ninja workflows are represented. Define the scope of a wrapper that runs configure before a selected build tool, and confirm done behavior against the configure-plus-ninja use case described in the issue.

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