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Re: config.cache considered harmful
- To: Martin Buchholz <martin at xemacs dot org>
- Subject: Re: config.cache considered harmful
- From: Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin at geocities dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:38:08 -0500 (EST)
- cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>, autoconf at gnu dot org
Hello, Martin!
> Let's think about when you would ever want to reuse a cache within a
> simple single GNU package. I claim you _never_ want to reuse that
> config.cache file sitting in your foo-1.9 directory. Why are you
> re-running configure, anyways, instead of just running `make'?
Because I want to try a different _configuration_:
CFLAGS=-ggdb3 ./configure --enable-cute-feature --without-bloat
Cache really saves time when I turn on/off debugging and optional
features. It remains valid in this case.
Regards,
Pavel Roskin