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[Bug build/14120] build process creates autom4te.cache directory in source dir
- From: "carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 01:04:10 +0000
- Subject: [Bug build/14120] build process creates autom4te.cache directory in source dir
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- References: <bug-14120-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14120
--- Comment #6 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Allan McRae from comment #5)
> From a fresh git checkout, running "../glibc/configure --prefix=/usr" in a
> build directory leaves this directory:
>
> $ ls ../glibc/autom4te.cache/
> output.0t requests traces.0t
>
> All those files have zero size.
That's odd, configure should not touch anything in the source directory. We
should support read-only source trees with the ability to have multiple builds
going from one source tree.
I wonder what's changed... bug in autotools?
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