Re: Autoconf 2.55 is released!

[Bill Wendling]

Also sprach Akim Demaille:
} 
} ** autom4te
} 
} - Supports --cache, and --no-cache.
} 
} - ~/.autom4te.cfg makes it possible to disable the caching mechanism
}   (autom4te.cache).  See `Customizing autom4te' in the documentation.
} 
This doesn't work.

[dangermouse self_installed] ls -ACF
autoconf-2.53/        .autom4te.cfg        configure.ac
autoconf-2.53.tar.gz  automake-1.6/        libtool-1.4.2/
autoconf-2.55/        automake-1.6.tar.gz  libtool-1.4.2.tar.gz
autoconf-2.55.tar.gz  configure*
[dangermouse self_installed] ls -ACF
autoconf-2.53/        .autom4te.cfg        configure.ac
autoconf-2.53.tar.gz  automake-1.6/        libtool-1.4.2/
autoconf-2.55/        automake-1.6.tar.gz  libtool-1.4.2.tar.gz
autoconf-2.55.tar.gz  configure*
[dangermouse self_installed] cat .autom4te.cfg 
## ------------------ ##
## User Preferences.  ##
## ------------------ ##

begin-language: "Autoconf"
args: --no-cache
end-language: "Autoconf"
[dangermouse self_installed] autoconf-2.55/bin/autoconf
[dangermouse self_installed] ls -ACF
autoconf-2.53/        autom4te.cache/      configure*
autoconf-2.53.tar.gz  .autom4te.cfg        configure.ac
autoconf-2.55/        automake-1.6/        libtool-1.4.2/
autoconf-2.55.tar.gz  automake-1.6.tar.gz  libtool-1.4.2.tar.gz

>From the documentation:

Customizing `autom4te'
----------------------

   One can customize `autom4te' via `~/.autom4te.cfg' (i.e., as found
in the user home directory), and `./.autom4te.cfg' (i.e., as found in
the directory from which `autom4te' is run).  The order is first
reading `autom4te.cfg', then `~/.autom4te.cfg', then `./.autom4te.cfg',
and finally the command line arguments.

   In these text files, comments are introduced with `#', and empty
lines are ignored.  Customization is performed on a per-language basis,
wrapped in between a `begin-language: "LANGUAGE"', `end-language:
"LANGUAGE"' pair.

   Customizing a language stands for appending options (*note autom4te
Invocation::) to the current definition of the language.  Options, and
more generally arguments, are introduced by `args: ARGUMENTS'.  You may
use the traditional shell syntax to quote the ARGUMENTS.

   As an example, to disable Autoconf caches (`autom4te.cache')
globally, include the following lines in `~/.autom4te.cfg':


## ------------------ ##
## User Preferences.  ##
## ------------------ ##

begin-language: "Autoconf"
args: --no-cache
end-language: "Autoconf"

So, why does it still create that annoying autom4te.cache file?

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