Re: [Plib-users] Great! Thank you, Bram Stolk&Steve Baker

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Wein Gui wrote:

> > remove config.cache and try again.

Yep - always good advice.  That cache is generally more
trouble than it's worth. I wish there was a way to permenantly
disable it.  I wrote a script that I run instead of ./configure
that removes the cache before it configures things.


> By the way, I hope to learn some detail things about config.cache,
> variable setting, etc. Where can I find some web sites to explain
> these? I already knew one:  http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html

The autoconf and automake manuals are the best places to find this
stuff - don't have an exact URL - but they aren't hard to find.

> Anything else?

When things go wrong in configure (like when it just told you that
cc -Wall didn't work), look at the file 'config.log' - which shows
you what exactly the configure script was trying to do - and what
errors it got when it tried.

...my next suggestion was going to be "Mail me config.log" - but
then you fixed it.

BTW: If you are having trouble getting FGFS to compile with the
SGI C++ compiler, I'm sure Curt will want to know about it. The
native C++ is quite a bit faster than G++ on IRIX/MIPS machines.

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