On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Peter Foley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Peter Foley <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > Both autogen.lastrun and config.parms seem to have the same purpose, to >> > store the ./configure command line. >> >> Not quite. autogen.last run save the command line given to >> autgogen.sh. that is _before_ substitution of things like >> -with-config=<foo> for instance. >> >> furthermore the content of config.parms has changed over time... at >> one point not that long ago it was not containing anything remotely >> close to autogen.lastrun >> for instance on my Mac, which has autoconf 2.61 >> >> $ >cat config.parms >> /usr/local/share/config.site /usr/local/etc/config.site >> >> >> > We should only need one, but I'm not >> > sure which one would be better to get rid of. Suggestions? >> >> you cannot get rid of config.parms, since that would require patching >> autoconf > > config.parms is created by this snippet in configure.in: > > echo "$@" > config.parms > > So it wouldn't actualy require patching autoconf to remove.
ok then, sure that line does not serve a purpose that I can see. I'm puzzled by the output I see on MacOS though ? how does echo "$@" end up as /usr/local/share/config.site /usr/local/etc/config.site ? oh well.... bottom line. autogen.lastrun is the one to keep :-) Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
