Re: config.cache considered harmful

[Olly Betts]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Akim Demaille writes:
>>>>>> "Olly" == Olly Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Olly> It also saves a lot of time if you're using automake and doing
>Olly> work that involves changing your Makefile.am-s.  Whenever one is
>Olly> modified, running make will run automake to update the
>Olly> corresponding Makefile.in, then rerun configure to produce a new
>Olly> Makefile from that Makefile.in.
>
>bad example :) Use `config.status src/Makefile'.  No need for
>configure here.  That's what Automake's Makefile do.

Oops.  Actually I'm not doing it by hand - I was thinking of what
happens when you change configure.in rather than Makefile.am.  Changes
to configure.in are typically somewhat rarer.

Cheers,
Olly