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Re: play nice with AC_CACHE_CHECK
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Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: play nice with AC_CACHE_CHECK |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:56:56 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> 1) readline.m4 gives different results with cached reruns: for example,
> on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu:
>
> ./configure -C
> -> LIBREADLINE="-lreadline -lncurses"
> ./config.status --recheck
> -> LIBREADLINE="-lreadline"
>
> This is because the commands to set the cache variable
> `gl_cv_lib_readline' also adjust LIBREADLINE and LTLIBREADLINE.
>
> The patch below fixes that by (ab)using the cache variable to hold the
> test result contents, making the COMMANDS-TO-SET-IT argument of the
> AC_CACHE_CHECK macro side-effect free. Do you think the cache variable
> should be renamed (for users keeping the cache over the update; not that
> it was working well before anyway)?
Thanks, Ralf. I couldn't find copyright papers for GNULIB for you.
Have you signed them? I can send them off-list if you want.
- Re: play nice with AC_CACHE_CHECK,
Simon Josefsson <=