[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Artur Skawina]

On 09/14/13 07:53, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> (And why the freak do I need to re-./configure for every single program
> that needs compiled? Shouldn't something in autotools already *know* my
> system details and not have to re-detect *everything* every single
> time? "Checking X...", "Checking Y...", "Is Z sane..."...? Why? Every
> other damn autotools-based project *already* checked those every time
> I compiled them! It's like opening my car door twenty thousand times to
> make sure "Yup...it's still a car!". If certain changes might go
> unnoticed then fine, give me a way to force a re-check if really
> needed.)

This is a (system) configuration issue. The support for persistent caches
is there, it just needs to be enabled. [1] But then /you/ have to deal
with invalidating the cache when something changes (which, in theory,
means after /every/ sw install or upgrade).

artur

[1] for example, using a /etc/config.site file like:
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#!/bin/bash

test -z "$SKIP_CONFIG_CACHE" || return 0

if test "$cache_file" = /dev/null -o "$cache_file" = 'config.cache' ; then
   PFIX=`$CC -v 2>&1 | awk ' /version /{ print$1$3"-"$4 }'`
   SFIX=`(set | grep '^ac_.*env' | grep -v '=$' | sort ; uname -mo ) | sha1sum | cut -f1 -d' '`
   cache_file="/var/cache/config.cache/$PFIX-$SFIX"
fi
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