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[Spencer Ogden <spencero AT mail.utexas.edu>]

Don't several spells dispel and resurect automake and autoconf as needed? I 
thinks this is what Dufflebunk mentioned in his last email. Restoring from 
a cached compile is pretty quick. The files could be 'hidden' by 
dispelling them, and then recasting

Spencer

On Friday 13 December 2002 02:20 pm, Christian Sonne wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:09:14AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Well, apparently slang has the same problem as ncurses, with regards
> > to gcc installing their own version.
> >
> > I recall someone saying (or gainsaying, don't recall) that recompiling
> > gcc after ncurses is updated would fix the ncurses.h file which gcc
> > installs, so that we'd no longer have to remove it after an ncurses
> > update (it is a Bad Thing (TM) to remove files from a spells
> > installation, makes them "corrupted" for 'cast --fix').
>
> not knowing _exactly_ how --fix works, but asuming it does something
> like check if the files from the install-log are existing, then wouldn't
> it be better to just make the spell tamper with the install-log, remove
> the desired line, so it won't corrupt during fix?
>
> having to recompile gcc is arguably better than corrupting spells, but
> imho still a Bad Thing (TM).
>
> FreakCERS
>
> > So, if recompiling gcc after ncurses (and slang) fixes those, we
> > should add triggers to gcc so that it recompiles after these are
> > updated (and any others that people find).  I haven't tried
> > recompiling gcc to see if this works (recompiling now, but it's a
> > PII-300, so it'll take a while.  ;)), but if anyone else knows/can try
> > faster, please do.
> >
> > Here is the slang info:
> > http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1957
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > -One of Four
> > a.k.a. sandalle
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