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

[Chet Ramey via TUHS]

On 6/21/24 5:04 PM, Alexis wrote:
> 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?

I think we're kind of saying the same thing. The autotools can't update
dependencies if something in the environment changes, regardless of whether
an OS update has occurred or not. That responsibility has to fall on the
admin or other tools.

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		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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