Re: Compiling for newer Intel CPUs with an older Intel build system?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Nick Bowler wrote:
> This sounds like a nice idea in concept, but unfortunately the
> config.cache files are not meant to be shared between different
> packages.  This has been tried before, and it inevitably leads
> to disaster.  Most obvious is the possibility of namespace
> collision (two packages could use the same variable name for
> totally different things) but more subtle issues can come up
> too.

Cache values are often interdependent.  The success of one depended on 
another, or on a particular shell variable value when the associated 
test was run.  The linker and preprocessor search paths are a good 
example of a dependency.

Bob
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