From 2298f95f1cc8dd91aad59d7c097ac971d3d1e26e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Todd C. Miller" Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 02:29:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added info about "config.cache from other other" error. --- TROUBLESHOOTING | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/TROUBLESHOOTING b/TROUBLESHOOTING index 23b5c5b52..dab641b7e 100644 --- a/TROUBLESHOOTING +++ b/TROUBLESHOOTING @@ -105,3 +105,14 @@ A) /usr/ucb/cc was the only C compiler that configure could find. via the --with-CC option. On Solaris, the path is probably something like "/opt/SUNWspro/SC4.0/bin/cc". If you have gcc that will also work. + +Q) When I run configure, it dies with the following error: + Fatal Error: config.cache exists from another platform! + Please remove it and re-run configure. +A) configure caches the results of its tests in a file called + config.cache to make re-running configure speedy. However, + if you are building sudo for a different platform the results + in config.cache will be wrong so you need to remove config.cache. + You can do this by "rm config.cache" or "make realclean". + Note that "make realclean" will also remove any object files + and configure temp files that are laying around as well.