From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26110 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2002 15:45:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 26102 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2002 15:45:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Cantor.suse.de) (213.95.15.193) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Apr 2002 15:45:52 -0000 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29EE31E533; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:45:52 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f To: DJ Delorie Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Why autoconf 2.13? References: <200204110039.g3B0dCT03033@fred.ninemoons.com> <87lmbtoq9r.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <200204121519.g3CFJtg03564@greed.delorie.com> X-Yow: Alright, you!! Imitate a WOUNDED SEAL pleading for a PARKING SPACE!! From: Andreas Schwab Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:45:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200204121519.g3CFJtg03564@greed.delorie.com> (DJ Delorie's message of "Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:19:55 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00213.txt.bz2 DJ Delorie 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."