Re: dpkg hooks

[William Pursell]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> William Pursell wrote:
> > I often find myself removing a package and then deleting
> > all of my cache files, but I have a tendency to forget
> > to delete the cache files until a configure invocation
> > noticeably misbehaves.
>
> Autoconf cache files?  As in the 'autom4te.cache' directories created
> in the top level of a project when configuring?  Are those the cache
> files you are talking about?

I'm talking about those files named $cache_file in
my $CONFIG_SITE.  Since they hold lines of the form:
ac_cv_func_foo=${ac_cv_func_foo=yes}
the cache is invalid if I remove the package
containing libfoo.


> Also, on a procedural note, when starting a new thread of discussion
> please send a new message.  When you reply to an old thread such as
> you did by replying to "test in a m4 macro and variable created from
> pushdef" and then simply change the subject your message is threaded
> there and anyone who is not interested in that thread and have killed
> it will probably miss reading your message threaded there along with
> them.

Thanks for that.  I will honor that in the future.