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Re: cache directory is not removed
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Earnie Boyd |
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Re: cache directory is not removed |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Jun 2002 07:28:00 -0400 |
"Steven G. Johnson" wrote:
>
> Bill Wendling wrote:
> > I concur. It is an annoyance. Having a flag (--remove-cache) as mentioned
> > above would be very nice. Having the cache directory is fine, but keeping
> > them there is a pain...
>
> I would go further and suggest that perhaps this should be the default
> behavior...probably the vast majority of autoconf users are more annoyed
> by the generated files lying around than they are by an extra three
> seconds on the rare occasions they run autoconf. And the time penalty
> will drop over time as computers get faster (unless Akim bloats autom4te
> to compensate :-).
>
> (Instead of creating and removing the cache, it would be better to not
> create it at all, or just send it all to /dev/null like we did with
> config.cache.)
>
So now I run `configure -C' always. I use the cache files to determine
problem areas of my runtime libraries.
> It could use/create the cache only if the autom4te.cache directory
> exists, or if the user passes --autom4te-cache or something like that.
> This way, you would only need to explicitly indicate once that you want
> the cache (per project), and it will be used thereafter (unless the
> users deletes the cache directory).
>
There is an easy way to get rid of the cache directory. It involves a
simple command. This commands repeated use will not even come close to
the amount of bits spread for this thread and others like it. Just `rm
-rf autom4te-2.53.cache' if you don't want it laying around.
Earnie.
- cache directory is not removed, Sam Steingold, 2002/06/04
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Akim Demaille, 2002/06/05
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Sam Steingold, 2002/06/05
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Bill Wendling, 2002/06/05
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Steven G. Johnson, 2002/06/05
- Re: cache directory is not removed,
Earnie Boyd <=
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Bill Wendling, 2002/06/06
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Sam Steingold, 2002/06/06
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Steven G. Johnson, 2002/06/06
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Akim Demaille, 2002/06/07
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- Re: cache directory is not removed, Steven G. Johnson, 2002/06/06
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Bill Wendling, 2002/06/06
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Steven G. Johnson, 2002/06/06
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Bill Wendling, 2002/06/06
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Andreas Buening, 2002/06/06
- Re: cache directory is not removed, Earnie Boyd, 2002/06/06