Re: config.cache considered harmful

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Is foo() in libbar?  No?  Try adding -L/usr/openwin/lib to the link
>> path.  How about now?  Maybe try -L/usr/X11R6/lib instead?

Alexandre> Yup, this is quite hard to implement with the feature
Alexandre> currently offered by autoconf :-(

Alexandre> The unfortunate side-effect of your proposal is that these
Alexandre> tests would suddenly start working, *unless* someone used a
Alexandre> cache file.

Sorry, but I don't understand the relationship here.  Whether there is
a cache file or not changes nothing to the fact that if a test was
performed then ac_cv was set, hence shadows a later test.

        Akim