AC_CACHE_LOAD
Replacement for autoconf cache load
Notes
Caching in autoconf is broken (through version 2.13). The problem is
that the cache is read
without any check for whether it makes any sense to read it.
A common problem is a build on a shared file system; connecting to
a different computer and then building within the same directory will
lead to at best error messages from configure and at worse a build that
is wrong but fails only at run time (e.g., wrong datatype sizes used).
Later versions of autoconf do include some checks for changes in the
environment that impact the choices, but still misses problems with
multiple different systems.
This fixes that by requiring the user to explicitly enable caching
before the cache file will be loaded.
To use this version of AC_CACHE_LOAD, you need to include
aclocal_cache.m4 in your aclocal.m4 file. The sowing aclocal.m4
file includes this file.
If no --enable-cache or --disable-cache option is selected, the
command causes configure to keep track of the system being configured
in a config.system file; if the current system matches the value stored
in that file (or there is neither a config.cache nor config.system file),
configure will enable caching. In order to ensure that the configure
tests make sense, the values of CC, F77, F90, and CXX are also included
in the config.system file.
Bugs
This does not work with the Cygnus configure because the enable arguments
are processed *after* AC_CACHE_LOAD (!). To address this, we avoid
changing the value of enable_cache, and use real_enable_cache, duplicating
the "notgiven" value.
See Also
PAC_ARG_CACHING