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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var"
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:42:55 -0500
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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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