Re: AC_CACHE_CHECK

[Russell Shaw]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > When should AC_CACHE_CHECK be used? Whenever the user uninstalls
> > something, wouldn't the cache become invalid?
>
> ...only if the user happened to uninstall something during the configure
> process.  After that, AC_CACHE_CHECK is irrelevant.

But if the user uninstalls libfoo then later re-runs ./configure,
won't libfoo still be assumed to be installed?