608534 - The configure script should support '-C' option (like clean autoconf does)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Michał Górny]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.6.37 Version/11.00
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Namoroka/3.6.12

The configure script used by Mozilla products should support the '-C' option ( as supported by core autoconf:

  -C, --config-cache      alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'

Otherwise, the configure scripts refuses to work if that option is passed (even though that option is not build-critical).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ./configure -C

Actual Results:  
configure: error: -C: invalid option; use --help to show usage


Expected Results:  
Configure script creating cache in the `config.cache' file. Or at least printing a warning about unsupported option and proceeding.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

This is probably due to using autoconf 2.13 vs. a newer version. Fixing it might be hard or not worthwhile.