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

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

I’m doing “git pull && make” regularly, too, and configure flags are
usually cached.  I don’t remember when I last had to reconfigure.

~~ Ricardo