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[Alexis]

Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:

> Isn't that what thecautoconf cache is for?

There's a cross-project cache? That is, a cache not just for the 
project for which autoconf was run, but for _all_ software built 
on that machine?

(Over the decades i've regularly observed instances where autoconf 
doesn't seem to be making use of results of its previous runs for 
a particular project; i don't know if that's because the build 
maintainer didn't configure autoconf correctly. My own dev/doc 
work hasn't required me to wrestle with autoconf.)


Alexis.