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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Eric Sandall wrote:

>
> Spencer Ogden said:
> > 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
>
> This would indeed work, on most machines.  An example of one that would
> not is my laptop, where I have limited space and so do not keep archives
> of installed spells.  Also, embedded devices, like the Zaurus, have
> limited space.
>

Two problems:

Performing more than one cast at a time could cause the
second to fail if it depends on whatever was dispelled (or worse yet,
resurrects it to satisfy a dependency after the other cast instance
dispelled it).

The bigger problem is that the conflicts all seem to be with headers gcc
creates. I don't think dispelling gcc would work very well before
compiling! :-)

-casey