Re: Is there any way to use ARC in 32-bit?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

I was not referring to David's information, but on experience of my own. 
I was just using this thread to propose an imporvement.

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> I think we just added a little check to see if the 'configure' script had been 
> changed more recently than the build,
> and reconfigure if it has.  I think also we (core developers) decided that in 
> them event of a config change doing
> a fresh config was more likely to give good results than re-using old config 
> settings.  That could just be a bad
> judgment call?
If you do a first install and type "make" or "make install" then you can 
just assume to run ./configure or fail.

However, base/gui/back (I don't remember make itself) have a dependency 
on configure itself: if it is changed it is rerun

I think it is a fine idea to reconfigure, but the original options 
should be used! That is, not old "config results" (as in existing 
config.h) but old config settings as in "parameters and env. variables 
passed to configure" are important.

To perform this "./config.status --recheck && ./config.status" needs to 
be used: that will run all tests again, but using the old command line 
options which really should be preferred. Imagine you first configured 
with a certain prefix or with art backend, then you run everything again 
and you could end installing in another prefix with the default cairo 
backend!

In my experience this is what other packages do if they offer the nicety 
of running configure again.

Riccardo