On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Zack Weinberg <za...@panix.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Why does Autotools produce a makefile which does _not_ update the >> cache under Bash shells? > > It can't. The rehash operation has to be done in the shell that is > the parent process of 'make install' (and any other shell processes > that are running at the time); there is no way for 'make install' to > do that.
Thanks, makes sense. I understand its a bad interaction. Things should "just work", but they don't. Would you happen to know why Bash does not update on its own after a 'make install'? Jeff _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
