On Friday 10 September 2004 19:42, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> On Friday 10 September 2004 09:32, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > One question I have is how cache invalidation is handled? Will the cache
> > not think until the end of time that e.g. kde is installed
> > in /usr/kde/3.2 while we allready went on to 4.0?
> >
> > Paul
>
> My patch uses the sandbox to see which files GNU configure uses.  I
> maintain a list of those files, and their checksums.  At the start of
> econf, I check the list of checksums.  If any of them have changed, I
> assume the entire cache is invalid.

Great,

Paul

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