Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var"

[Mark H Weaver]

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:

> also, even worse, when using a fine git checkout for some time, you will from 
> time to time do this:
>
> $ git pull
> $ make check
>
> If this touches stuff autoconf cares about, make will do ./configure
> again and leave localstatedir off. Then lots (32) of the tests will
> fail.

This shouldn't happen, the configure flags should be preserved.  It has
never happened to me, and I've been doing "git pull && make" regularly
for a couple of years now.

Can you email address@hidden about your experience here?

     Mark