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Re: Why autoconf 2.13?


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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