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From: | Steven G. Johnson |
Subject: | Re: cache-file |
Date: | Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:06:52 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020414 Debian/0.9.9-6 |
Thomas Dickey wrote:
It's about the cache-file. I'm using autoconf 2.53 and in the 'configure' script I always get 'cache_file=/dev/null'. I know I could use a cache passing the '-C' option to 'configure', but I would prefer to have itautomatically set to 'config.cache' by autoconf.you can (until some kludger "improves" things again) assign to the cache_file shell variable in your configure.in
Before you do that, however, you should understand that the cache file was removed by default for a *reason*: users experienced continual problems by inadvertently using stale cache files (archetypically because they upgraded their system to satisfy some unsatisfied dependency that configure itself had complained about). (There was a recent thread about this on this list.)
If you want to use config.cache on your own machine, for your own use, a better solution is to modify the config.site file (search for "config.site" in the autoconf manual) to set the cache_file variable.
Steven
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