Niels> Akim Demaille akim@epita.fr writes:
Please, drop 2.13, as it is too buggy, and trying to maintain compatibility with it is the worse that could happen to your scripts.
Niels> Well, there's a lot of nifty stuff in the latest autoconf that I like, Niels> but there are also some more controversial things (like the Niels> perl/autom4te stuff, not using config.cache by default, and it seems Niels> to be an order of magnitude slower than autoconf-2.13). I use and Niels> require the latest autoconf for my own projects, but I don't think Niels> autoconf-2.13 is going to disappear soon.
Slowness is relative: the more you run it, the less it is, precisely thanks to the cache. That's a dramatic speed up when using autoheader and/or automake.
Still, 2.57 lets you disable the generation of that cache file.