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Re: configure -C by default?
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Peter Breitenlohner |
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Re: configure -C by default? |
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Mon, 7 Feb 2011 11:35:32 +0100 (CET) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
The only real world use-case I currently have for config.caches, is it being
a offering a crude way to override configure settings when configure guesses
things wrong (A real-world use case: Paths to tools when cross-building
scripts)
My real world use-case is TeX live with a total of about 70 configure
scripts and a very large number of common tests. Here -C gives a
considerable speed-up with prcatically no problems.
Thus I'd certainly object to a removal of the cache file.
Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>
Re: configure -C by default?, Brian Gough, 2011/02/07
Re: configure -C by default?, Eric Blake, 2011/02/07
Re: configure -C by default?, Steffen Dettmer, 2011/02/18