[TUHS] Building programs (Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register

[Alexis]

"Greg A. Woods" <woods at robohack.ca> writes:

> Indeed there is.  Nothing new about it either.  It's been around 
> for two
> decades or more.

TIL - thank you! i've never seen this mentioned before. (Perhaps 
because i only use autoconf as an end-user, rather than as a dev.)

Looking at section 15.8 of that manual, it looks like i could 
specify that `-C` / `--config-cache` be passed to configure by 
default site-wide. So i might do so on my Gentoo system - given 
most things on that system are locally compiled, it might be an 
interesting stress-test data-point regarding configuration 
caching.


Alexis.