Simon Josefsson wrote: > is it possible to design a reliable > caching mechanism? Something similar to CONFIG_SITE for autoconf?
CONFIG_SITE is not reliable; that's the problem with it... > I find that ./gnulib-tool takes a long time and 95% of the time I use > it, it ended up doing exactly the same thing as it did last time I ran > it: copying a set of possibly patched files out of the gnulib directory. I use gnulib-tool with option --symlink in such cases. As long as the module descriptions don't change, you don't need to re-run gnulib-tool then. Bruno