[Developers] CactusExternal/HDF5 is dangerous

[Jonathan Thornburg]

Hi, David,

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, David Rideout wrote:
> I have been using the configuration scripts extensively, and agree with Erik.
> It seems silly for Cactus to search for library directories each time someone
> touches a .ccl file.  It would be nice if these ran only once, as Tom
> suggests, but a better solution would be to recognize that now-a-days a
> thornlist is needed at the config stage.

Hmm, that's certainly not the case right now,
and I'm not at all convinced this is a good idea.
As far as I know, it's perfectly ok to edit a configuration's
thornlist and recompile without reconfiguring.

ciao,

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