Re: config.cache considered harmful

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello, Martin!

> Let's think about when you would ever want to reuse a cache within a
> simple single GNU package.  I claim you _never_ want to reuse that
> config.cache file sitting in your foo-1.9 directory.  Why are you
> re-running configure, anyways, instead of just running `make'?

Because I want to try a different _configuration_:

CFLAGS=-ggdb3 ./configure --enable-cute-feature --without-bloat

Cache really saves time when I turn on/off debugging and optional
features. It remains valid in this case.

Regards,
Pavel Roskin