[Libreoffice] config.parms vs autogen.lastrun

[Peter Foley]

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.

Thanks,

Peter