[Libreoffice] config.parms vs autogen.lastrun

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Peter Foley <pefoley2 at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Peter Foley <pefoley2 at 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