Re: config.cache considered harmful

[Martin Buchholz]

>>>>> "AD" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Alexandre> The unfortunate side-effect of your proposal is that these
Alexandre> tests would suddenly start working, *unless* someone used a
Alexandre> cache file.

AD> Sorry, but I don't understand the relationship here.  Whether there is
AD> a cache file or not changes nothing to the fact that if a test was
AD> performed then ac_cv was set, hence shadows a later test.

This is one reason I changed the most basic macros in autoconf.  I
didn't change the setting of the variables (their values are needed),
but I removed all cache tests of those variables.