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Re: how to disable caching of result
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Bob Friesenhahn |
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Re: how to disable caching of result |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:37:28 -0500 (CDT) |
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > values take. You can then unset the cache variable that autoconf uses
> > before trying again. Here is some example code taken from one of my
> > configure scripts:
>
> hmm - while I note that support for conventional Bourne shell was
> abandoned sometime last year, no one seemed to have pointed out that
> unset is one of those features that isn't as portable as one would like.
Probably so. It hasn't bit me yet on any semi-modern system though.
I don't know if Autoconf offers any reasonable alternative.
Maybe Autoconf 2.12 offers a better solution?
Bob
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