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Re: make clean & config.cache; multiple platform support

To: shriram@cs.rice.edu
Subject: Re: make clean & config.cache; multiple platform support
From: Steven Jenkins <sjenkins@ms.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:39:45 -0500
Cc: scsh-bugs@martigny.ai.mit.edu
make distclean

>Can `make clean' be told to remove config.cache as well?  I use make
>clean to wipe things out before starting to make on a new platform,
>and I ran into a bunch of troubles because config.cache was lying
>around between FreeBSD and Solaris.  Removed the file, configure'd
>again, and all is now well.
>
>Also, perhaps I'm just using the configuration and installation
>process poorly, but is there a better way of settings things up for
>multiple platforms?  I ran
>
>  ./configure --prefix=/home/shriram/.Packages/scsh \
>              --exec-prefix=/home/shriram/.Packages/scsh/.bin/sparc-solaris
>
>  ./configure --prefix=/home/shriram/.Packages/scsh \
>              --exec-prefix=/home/shriram/.Packages/scsh/.bin/i386-freebsd
>
>and ended up with
>
>- bin/scsh files which were indeed different;
>- identical include/scheme48.h files, but I'm willing to concede these
>  could be distinct, so they should be kept separate;
>- a bunch of stuff in lib/scsh/, of which:
>  - cig/, libscshvm.a, scsh.image, scshvm need to be different;
>  - everything else looks completely identical.
>
>In short, there's a lot of duplicated stuff here.  Maybe I'm just not
>configuring properly.  Could you include instructions in the
>distribution to help with this?  The generic GNU INSTALL file falls a
>bit short of what one would hope for.
>
>Thanks for Scsh!
>
>Keepin' the faith,
>'shriram

Steven L. Jenkins

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