From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12966 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2013 18:44:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 12912 invoked by uid 48); 15 Oct 2013 18:43:59 -0000 From: "carlos at redhat dot com" To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug build/14120] build process creates autom4te.cache directory in source dir Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:44:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: build X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: carlos at redhat dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14120 --- Comment #10 from Carlos O'Donell --- (In reply to Allan McRae from comment #9) > Testing for autoconf in a configure script... interesting! > > Looking into the history of this, it appears to have been introduced so that > when the old "--with-cvs" flag was used, calling make would regenerate > configure and friends when their source file was updated. When building > with "--without-cvs" this check was not performed and make would not update > any of these files. > > Can I just kill this check? It does not seem something that should be done > during configure and make. I think the check should get removed since it's clearly leading to problems. Regenerating these files is an independent and conscious step. Mike's patch to change the file name should also get checked in. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.