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Re: how to disable caching of result


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: how to disable caching of result
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:38:14 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Matthias Czapla wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Im want to check for the presence of the GNU Readline library in a
> configure script. On some systems we need to link to another library
> in addition to readline for some terminal functions (e.g. tgetent).
> I tried this:
>
> AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, readline,,
>         AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgetent, ncurses curses tinfo termcap)
>         AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, readline,,
>                 AC_MSG_ERROR([readline not available])
>         )
> )
>
> This correctly determines the additional library required if the
> test program used by configure doesnt compile with -lreadline
> alone. However the second test for readline does not get invoked
> because the result of the first test is cached. How can I tell
> autoconf to forget the result of the first test before doing it
> the second time?

you'll have to set a shell variable and test that.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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