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On Friday 10 September 2004 09:32, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> One question I have is how cache invalidation is handled? Will the cache |
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> not think until the end of time that e.g. kde is installed |
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> in /usr/kde/3.2 while we allready went on to 4.0? |
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> Paul |
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My patch uses the sandbox to see which files GNU configure uses. I maintain a |
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list of those files, and their checksums. At the start of econf, I check the |
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list of checksums. If any of them have changed, I assume the entire cache is |
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invalid. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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