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[Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:20:03 -0800
Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org> wrote:
> > Any spells that do anything with libraries can potentially disrupt the
> > cache. I would suggest those would be all with "\.h$" matching anywhere
> > in their install log. Unfortunately, I guess the cache would simply
> > have to be deleted after a cast of one of them. I would not advise us
> > to delete the cache based on the install log though. This should be
> > set intelligently by the spell writers... (if they can manage)
> 
> Ah.  I see.  I think grepping the install log for files in 
> /lib,/usr/lib,(+paths in /etc/ld.so.conf) and *.h *.hxx would be more 
> intelligent than developers though, or is there a counterexample?  
> Perhaps we can allow developers to override the heuristics.

Yeah, we could...
Though that would mean this is a major change, not a "If the spell is
not changed it won't break anything" change... The problem is that
giving a ./configure stale info might not break the configure itself
but only produce weird and strange results far later in the cast.
So I would rather be careful that wrong...

So Far,
  Karsten

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