Last on build problem

[Phil Edwards]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:55:53AM -0400, Jerry Quinn wrote:
> 
> It seems like when configure is modified, the build system reruns it.

Yes.  At least, that's definitely true for autoconf 2.5x, which is where
we're headed.


> Would
> it make sense to blow away config.cache when this happens?  It might save a
> certain amount of grief.  Spoken like a true non-config expert :-)

Deleting the target libraries' config.cache does avoid a large category of
problems, but I wouldn't have expected this to be one of them.  It really
depends on what you've changed in configure.in.


Phil

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