Re: Qs: -pthread, make builds warns be errors, etc

[Matt England]

Trying answer at least one of my questions on my own:

At 4/22/2006 11:27 PM, Matt England wrote:
> * Is the autom4te.cache generation (on my autoconf-2.59 system) optional?
>
> I'm trying to minimize the file clutter that autoconf generates in my 
> developers working filesystem areas (eg, 'svn status' looks messier then 
> need be after running ./configure).  Is autom4te.cache directory needed, 
> and if not, is there a way I can eliminate it's creation in the 
> configure.ac script?  Is it fair to say that this autom4te.cache dir isn't 
> used/read by a human  (something that one can not also say for config.log) 
> and therefore could be made optional?

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_chapter/autoconf_8.html#SEC99

FWIW, I would really prefer that one be able to control autom4te activity 
from configure.ac.

-Matt