Re: Build failures on kernel version changes

[David Holland <dholland-current%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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...

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David A. Holland
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