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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:40:02 -0500
From:      Lucas Bergman <iceberg@pobox.com>
To:        "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>
Cc:        Peter Brezny <pbrezny@purplecat.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: configure question
Message-ID:  <20010723134002.B74870@comp04.prc.uic.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107231038300.5567-100000@pogo.caustic.org>; from jan@caustic.org on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:39:26AM -0700
References:  <NCBBILLCPGBGKGJLJKHHEELBCAAA.pbrezny@purplecat.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107231038300.5567-100000@pogo.caustic.org>

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> Peter Brezny wrote:
> 
> > When installing something from source, for instance apache_modssl,
> > if you perform a
> >   [asks if ./configure with new options overwrites configuration]

f.johan.beisser wrote:
> 
> yes. it does.

Quite right.  One caveat, though, is that GNU configure scripts (the
vast majority of them) cache some of the results found in the
configure scripts.  So, for example, if you run configure, then
install a library (say, GTK) that you didn't have before, then rerun
configure, it may not catch the new library, because of the cache.
So, in some situations, you need to blow away config.cache before
re-running configure to get certain changes to take effect.

> this is technically not freebsd related. please try to keep your
> posts on topic.

True enough.  However, I'm hard pressed to think of another forum that
is more appropriate.  If Peter's question were something like, "I
can't get AC_FOO() to work in my project's configure.in," then I would
certainly direct him to an autoconf group.

Lucas

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