Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:33:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Is there anything about this in the GNU standards?
Not that I can see. The GNU standards don't talk about the cache.
But the tradition is pretty clear.
E.g. "configure --disable-nls" isn't cached.
I inspected several other GNU programs and found only one instance
where "configure" caches an --enable or --disable option. This was in
sharutils 4.2.1, which uses a 5-year-old configure.in that should get
updated to use the gettext-related macros that have been developed since
1995, and once it does it will use the same tradition as everyone else.
Personally I don't care too much as long as it's consistent among
packages, but my preference would be to not cache. A cache should
just improve performance; it shouldn't change behavior other than
by speeding it up.
