21 Jun
2024
21 Jun
'24
7:06 a.m.
At 2024-06-20T17:54:22-0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
At Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:34:46 +1000, Alexis
<flexibeast(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
There's a cross-project [autoconf] cache?
That is, a cache not just
for the project for which autoconf was run, but for _all_ software
built on that machine?
Indeed there is. Nothing new about it either. It's been around for two
decades or more. It can be a bit fragile, especially in the
"gradually accumulates" way
of using it (which is why pkgsrc avoids that), but usually the fault
lies squarely on the shoulders of developers who either don't read the
Autoconf documentation, or think that somehow they're smarter than
Autoconf and the many decades of lore it encodes.
Hard to believe such people exist!
Regards,
Branden