Bug 66016

Summary:	autoconf does not delete its cache directory
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	sds
Component:	autoconf	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	7.3
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Description sds 2002-06-04 19:45:01 UTC

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Description of problem:
when I run autoconf the usual way, it runs "autom4te" which creates cache
directory "autom4te-2.53.cache" and does not remove it at the end.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
in a direcory with configure.in, run 'autoconf'


Actual Results:  directory autom4te-2.53.cache is created, in addition to the
file "configure"

Expected Results:  only "configure" should be created.

Additional info:

<http://sources.redhat.com/autoconf/> mentioned as the "URL" in the "rpm -qi"
output does not work.

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2002-06-07 11:30:26 UTC

It's feature with recent versions of Autoconf.  When you run autoconf a second
time, the cache files are used.

Thanks for spotting that the url is no longer valid.  I'll fix that in the next
package release.

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2002-06-23 07:50:57 UTC

Btw this topic recently discussed in a long sometimes heated thread on
the autoconf list.  See the thread starting at
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf/2002-June/013351.html