From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var" Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:29:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20160216135729.GB13560@novena-choice-citizen.lan> <20160216205920.6c7c0684@scratchpost.org> <87io1oxonk.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVyQN-0006qD-Od for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 04:29:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVyQI-0003fs-PP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 04:29:31 -0500 Received: from sinope.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.23]:40349) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVyQI-0003fe-Fw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 04:29:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87io1oxonk.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver writes: > Danny Milosavljevic writes: > >> also, even worse, when using a fine git checkout for some time, you wi= ll 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. I=E2=80=99m doing =E2=80=9Cgit pull && make=E2=80=9D regularly, too, and = configure flags are usually cached. I don=E2=80=99t remember when I last had to reconfigure. ~~ Ricardo