[Python-Dev] New autoconf in use! (original) (raw)

Martin v. L�wis loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de
14 Apr 2002 14:21:34 +0200

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

Agreed. Most machines are fast enough nowadays that the absence of config.cache isn't a major stumbling block. If they are that sensitive to the performance reduction, they can install autoconf themselves and generate a local version of the configure script.

I found that the most convenient way to get configure caching is to define a variable CONFIG_SITE pointing to a file that reads

if test "$cache_file" = /dev/null; then cache_file="$HOME/.ac/config.cache" fi

That way, all configure scripts will share a cache.

Regards, Martin