>>>>> "Steven" == Steven G Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> They don't have understood the point. And then, why keep the .o >> too? And the .deps? Steven> Again, it's a matter of tradeoffs and optimizing for the Steven> common case. On the one hand, programs spewing files as a Steven> side-effect that the user didn't explicitly request is Steven> generally undesirable. On the other hand, developers change Steven> source code files and recompile *very* often, so the extra Steven> speed (which can be orders of magnitude for .o!) is worth the Steven> filesystem litter. By we just do agree here! autom4te.cache appears when autoconf, autoheader or automake is run. We are not talking about end-users here.
