Simon Josefsson wrote:
> is it possible to design a reliable
> caching mechanism?  Something similar to CONFIG_SITE for autoconf?

CONFIG_SITE is not reliable; that's the problem with it...

> I find that ./gnulib-tool takes a long time and 95% of the time I use
> it, it ended up doing exactly the same thing as it did last time I ran
> it: copying a set of possibly patched files out of the gnulib directory.

I use gnulib-tool with option --symlink in such cases. As long as the
module descriptions don't change, you don't need to re-run gnulib-tool
then.

Bruno




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