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[Bug build/14120] build process creates autom4te.cache directory in source dir


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14120

--- Comment #10 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Allan McRae from comment #9)
> Testing for autoconf in a configure script...  interesting!
> 
> Looking into the history of this, it appears to have been introduced so that
> when the old "--with-cvs" flag was used, calling make would regenerate
> configure and friends when their source file was updated.  When building
> with "--without-cvs" this check was not performed and make would not update
> any of these files.
> 
> Can I just kill this check?  It does not seem something that should be done
> during configure and make.

I think the check should get removed since it's clearly leading to problems.
Regenerating these files is an independent and conscious step. Mike's patch to
change the file name should also get checked in.

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