Re: configure -C by default?

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> The only real world use-case I currently have for config.caches, is it being 
> a offering a crude way to override configure settings when configure guesses 
> things wrong (A real-world use case: Paths to tools when cross-building 
> scripts)

My real world use-case is TeX live with a total of about 70 configure
scripts and a very large number of common tests.  Here -C gives a
considerable speed-up with prcatically no problems.

Thus I'd certainly object to a removal of the cache file.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>