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

[Alexis]

Chet Ramey via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> writes:

> On 6/20/24 7:35 PM, Alexis wrote:

>> If i compile something on one of my OpenBSD boxen in the 
>> morning,
>> and then compile some other thing in the afternoon, without an 
>> OS
>> upgrade in-between, autoconf isn't going to find that libc.so 
>> has
>> changed in-between. 
>
> configure and config.cache compute the results for a given build
> environment. If you change that, whose responsibility is it to 
> update
> the
> dependencies?

Sorry, i'm not sure i understand your question, particularly given 
that i was writing about the situation where a fundamental part of 
the build environment _hasn't_ changed .... Could you please 
elaborate or rephrase?


Alexis.