Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > On 3/25/15 10:34 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes: >>> When running autoconf from the root tree, autom4te.cache/ is >>> automatically generated. >>> Wouldn't it make sense to add an entry in .gitignore for that?
>> Personally, I don't want such a thing, as then I would tend to forget >> to remove that cache file. And you do want to remove it. autoconf >> goes pretty berserk if the cache file hangs around across significant >> changes to configure.in, such as if you were to switch branches. >> (Or at least that used to be true --- last time I got burnt by it >> was quite some time ago, but possibly that's just because I'm careful >> about removing the cache file.) > I think you might be confusing it with config.cache? No, I've never used config.cache. I'm not actually sure what autoconf keeps in autom4te.cache/, but I've definitely seen it generate wacko output files when that directory still has contents from a previous run with some other version of the input files. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers