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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var"
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:42:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87io1oxonk.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160216205920.6c7c0684@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:59:20 +0100")

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:

> also, even worse, when using a fine git checkout for some time, you will from time to time do this:
>
> $ git pull
> $ make check
>
> If this touches stuff autoconf cares about, make will do ./configure
> again and leave localstatedir off. Then lots (32) of the tests will
> fail.

This shouldn't happen, the configure flags should be preserved.  It has
never happened to me, and I've been doing "git pull && make" regularly
for a couple of years now.

Can you email bug-guix@gnu.org about your experience here?

     Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-16 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-16 13:57 The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var" Jookia
2016-02-16 14:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-16 14:52   ` Jookia
2016-02-16 16:41   ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-16 17:12     ` Jookia
2016-02-16 17:16       ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-16 16:04 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-02-16 16:08   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-02-16 19:11 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-16 19:59 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-02-16 22:42   ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2016-02-17  9:29     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-17  8:06 ` Chris Marusich
2016-02-17  8:38   ` Jookia
2016-02-17  9:15     ` Chris Marusich
2016-02-17 10:08       ` Jookia
2016-02-17 17:50         ` Chris Marusich
2016-02-17 18:00           ` Jookia
2016-02-17 18:23           ` Andreas Enge
2016-03-17 22:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-17 22:19   ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-18  1:12   ` Jookia
2016-03-18 18:45     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-19  3:27       ` Jookia
2016-03-19 14:11   ` Ludovic Courtès

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