On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Nick Bowler wrote:
This sounds like a nice idea in concept, but unfortunately the config.cache files are not meant to be shared between different packages. This has been tried before, and it inevitably leads to disaster. Most obvious is the possibility of namespace collision (two packages could use the same variable name for totally different things) but more subtle issues can come up too.
Cache values are often interdependent. The success of one depended on another, or on a particular shell variable value when the associated test was run. The linker and preprocessor search paths are a good example of a dependency.
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