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Re: RFA/RFC: Pass --cache-file=/dev/null on to subconfigures


Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes:

> I've seen it happen -- building gdb/insight which is part of the src
> tree if not gcc specfically -- when a precious variable contained a
> leading space. I think it was because the top-level configure
> automatically augmented it as follows, when the var was originally empty:
>
>   X="$X --some-new-flag"
>
> For some reason, the sub-configure had the variable without the leading
> space, so it complained of a mismatch.

That should no longer be an issue with the switch to autoconf 2.64.
Such whitespace differences are now ignored.

Andreas.

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