| I don't think anyone was advocating removing the autom4te.cache | creation, and I'm sure that there are valid uses for it. Yes, I also find | the amount of time it takes for autoconf to finish annoying, but when | you're working in a CVS directory, it's annoying to have this directory | there...
Are you *serious*? Should I suggest .cvsignore? | and when you go to do a release, you don't want that directory | there. It's extra work, is all. What's the relationship with a release? | As I said in a different post, sometimes the configure is automatically | regenerated during a snapshot release, say. In those cases, it's extra | work to remove this directory. No, it's wonderful to see that, since it should just never happen.