From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Why autoconf 2.13?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeads8x6mr.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204121519.g3CFJtg03564@greed.delorie.com> (DJ Delorie's message of "Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:19:55 -0400")
DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:
|> > What's wrong with "rm config.cache"? autoconf 2.50+ does not even create
|> > a config.cache by default any more.
|>
|> The problem is when someone does "cvs update" and suddenly everything
|> breaks because they got a newly configured configure which doesn't
|> like the config.cache they've got sitting around.
I still regard it as an acceptable workaround, since the data in it can
become stale quite easily anyway, just by changing anything in the build
environment.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-12 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-10 17:38 Fred Fish
2002-04-10 17:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-10 17:47 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-04-11 11:30 ` DJ Delorie
2002-04-11 15:00 ` Tom Tromey
2002-04-11 16:00 ` DJ Delorie
2002-04-12 3:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-12 8:19 ` DJ Delorie
2002-04-12 8:45 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2002-04-12 9:07 ` Andrew Cagney
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