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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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