On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:02:05AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > Hi. It seems that Lynx285dev3's configure script will delete > > > the config.cache file. Why? I deleted it in 282dev2 and problems > > > with rand/srand are gone, but now that new config.cache file created > > > can be reused for future configure scripts I think. It's much > > > faster using a cache file that configuring from scratch. Bye! > > > > I did that because there are several tests that the configure script makes > > which are difficult to make rerunnable (and sharing configure results across > > different tools doesn't really work, since there are cases where the tools > > use the information in conflicting ways: the only cases where I'm aware > > that it _does_ work are (a) trivial scripts or (b) scripts written by the > > same developers). > > > BTW: autoconf >= 2.50 does no longer create a config.cache unless you do > explicitely enable it.
I'm aware of that but also seem to recall that >2.50 has broken AC_CHECK_LIB, so I'm not recommending its use until I've checked for that as well as retesting the script to see what other breakage I should fix. (Between seeing 2.5x degrade rapidly into a nonconverging series of alpha releases - "2.52e" was cited as a "release" - and lack of time on my part, I've not done that). while I'm replying to you (you seem to be the new Debian package maintainer for lynx): I notice a shift in the Debian bug-reporting system: it used to be stated that completed bugs would be removed when no further discussion had taken place for a month. However, much of the list for lynx is in that category. (It makes it hard to spot bugs that I haven't tried to fix). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
