Re: strange stuff

[Lars J. Aas]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:01:39AM +0200, Dirk Herrmann wrote:
: Hello together,
: 
: * when configuring guile, I get the message
: 
:   [...]
:   loading cache /dev/null
:   ./configure: .: /dev/null: not a regular file
:   [...]
: 
: and it seems that subsequent calls to configure do not use any cached
: information.

This is new Autoconf 2.50 behaviour.  Use -C or --cache=config.cache when
running configure to keep a cache file around.

Invalid caches were often the cause of many problems, and they do not
increase the performance for regular users that just configure and install
release tarballs.  The feature was therefore demoted to an optional feature
intended for package developers (that's the word, more or less).

You can most likely re-enable config.cache-usage as the default by setting
up a config.site file (never created one so I don't know what code you need
and where you would put the file - sorry).

  Lars J