Re: AC_CACHE_CHECK

2010-09-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, When should AC_CACHE_CHECK be used? Whenever the user uninstalls something, wouldn't the cache become invalid? ...only if the user happened to uninstall something during the configure process. After that, AC_CACHE_CHECK is irrelevant. -- Thomas E.

Re: AC_CACHE_CHECK

2010-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, When should AC_CACHE_CHECK be used? Whenever the user uninstalls something, wouldn't the cache become invalid? ...only if the user happened to uninstall something during the configure process. After that, AC_CACHE_CHECK is irre

Re: AC_CACHE_CHECK

2010-09-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Russell Shaw wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, When should AC_CACHE_CHECK be used? Whenever the user uninstalls something, wouldn't the cache become invalid? ...only if the user happened to uninstall something during the configure pr

Re: AC_CACHE_CHECK

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Thomas Dickey wrote on Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 03:09:20PM CEST: > On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Russell Shaw wrote: > >Thomas Dickey wrote: > >>On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Russell Shaw wrote: > >>>When should AC_CACHE_CHECK be used? Whenever the user uninstalls > >>>something, wouldn't the cache become invali

Re: Overriding LN_S

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:47:59PM CEST: > On 09/02/2010 02:43 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >Well, we /should/ fix Autoconf to allow overriding, and at that point, > >you should be able to override globally with export LN_S=... > >(though I'm not sure if LN_S will b