Re: gtk+ from CVS not building

[Russell Nelson <nelson crynwr com>]

Tom Tromey writes:
 > A helpful hint: if you need to debug configure stuff, you should
 > remove config.cache before re-configuring.  Otherwise you won't be
 > testing the same code path that failed before; you'll just pick up the
 > bad values (which are now in the cache).

Aha!  Thanks, Tom, that fixed it.  I had failed to install the X
develop libraries, and configure cached the fact that I didn't have
them.  So, um, what is the point of re-running configure if it keeps
wrong values?  I think I'm going to run configure like this from now
on: rm -f config.cache;./configure.

You know, this is just another argument in favor of having a real, not
constructed makefile.

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