On 30 May 2011 00:12, Tom Bishop, Wenlin Institute <tangmu_at_wenlin.com> wrote:
>
> On May 17, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>> ...
>> config.cache by default, see http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/autoconf/Cache-Files.html
>>
>> You can just remove it and rerun configure to make it not use cached values.
>
> I couldn't find a file named config.cache. I downloaded a fresh copy of curl-7.21.6.tar, expanded it and tried the following:
>
> % set CFLAGS="-arch 386"
> % ./configure --disable-shared
> ...
> checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
> checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking size of long... 8
>
> I don't understand "(cached)" here, and don't know if it's problematic; could the cache be in some location outside the curl folder? Or is it newly created with the configure command?

Typical configure scripts tend to check the same thing more than once
(or at least that's my impression). So you will probably find that
closer to the start it says:

checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes

That's my guess anyway.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>
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