Re: how to disable caching of result

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> > values take.  You can then unset the cache variable that autoconf uses
> > before trying again.  Here is some example code taken from one of my
> > configure scripts:
>
> hmm - while I note that support for conventional Bourne shell was
> abandoned sometime last year, no one seemed to have pointed out that
> unset is one of those features that isn't as portable as one would like.

Probably so.  It hasn't bit me yet on any semi-modern system though.
I don't know if Autoconf offers any reasonable alternative.

Maybe Autoconf 2.12 offers a better solution?

Bob
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