From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 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.
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 Thanks for spotting that the url is no longer valid.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.
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