Re: Build failures on kernel version changes

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 06:05:31PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 06:40:05PM +0100, Nicolas Joly wrote:
>  > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 04:51:42PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > Aren't they also used during configure? A lot of configure scripts do
>  > > inane things like
>  > > 
>  > >    Checking for socket -lsocket... no
>  > >      :
>  > >    Checking for socket in -lsocket... (cached) no
>  > >      :
>  > 
>  > No. It's only used, if available, to pre-fill ac_cv_* variables which
>  > are used during a configure run. The cache files are dumps of those
>  > variables to speed-up any configure rerun.
> 
> Then there's no point worrying about it, I think...

That was my first thought, given the low number of time tools builds
trigger configure reruns.

Another complication is that subconfigures are executed at build time
(.build_done target) not during configure step (.configure_done target)
unlike top level configures.

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Nicolas Joly

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