Re: [Libreoffice] config.parms vs autogen.lastrun

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Both autogen.lastrun and config.parms seem to have the same purpose, to
> > > store the ./configure command line.
> >
> > Not quite. autogen.last run save the command line given to
> > autgogen.sh. that is _before_ substitution of things like
> > -with-config=<foo> for instance.
> >
> > furthermore the content of config.parms has changed over time... at
> > one point not that long ago it was not containing anything remotely
> > close to autogen.lastrun
> > for instance on my Mac, which has autoconf 2.61
> >
> > $ >cat config.parms
> > /usr/local/share/config.site /usr/local/etc/config.site
> >
> >
> > > We should only need one, but I'm not
> > > sure which one would be better to get rid of. Suggestions?
> >
> > you cannot get rid of config.parms, since that would require patching autoconf
>
> config.parms is created by this snippet in configure.in:
>
> echo "$@" > config.parms
>
> So it wouldn't actualy require patching autoconf to remove.

ok then, sure that line does not serve a purpose that I can see.

I'm puzzled by the output I see on MacOS though ? how does echo "$@"
end up as /usr/local/share/config.site /usr/local/etc/config.site ?
oh well....

bottom line. autogen.lastrun is the one to keep :-)

Norbert