Re: Patch: remove autom4te.cache

[Ralf Corsepius]

Am Son, 2002-05-12 um 11.58 schrieb Alexandre Duret-Lutz:
> >>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [`make distclean' deletes `autom4te.cache']

 
> There have been a few (hmm, at least one) requests on the
> Autoconf ML to rename `autom4te.cache' and prepend a dot to hide
> it.
I am opposed to the second part of your sentence. 

Primarily for two reasons:

1. Unlike .libs, .deps etc. autom4te.cache are generated inside of the
source-tree. IMO, they therefore should remain visible, otherwise people
will start shipping them with their packages.

2. autom4te.caches blow up the size of source trees significantly.

I have an extreme case where autom4te.caches blow up the size of the
source-tree by at least factor 2 (> 160MB instead of 80MB, with the size
of the source-tree w/o any auto* generated files being ~40MB).
Hiding away such an amount of files would be prohibitive, IMHO.

Ralf