option to speedup running of configure script

To anyone tired of waiting for the configure script to run: try the -C option.

This creates a configure cache (config.cache) which stores the result of each test. When a test is to be run, configure first checks the cache, and if the answer is there, the test is not run. This helps a lot when rerunning configure, but also running it just one time. This is because configure reruns a lot of tests multiple times.

This also speeds up the libtool and udunits configure runs, which will use the answers from the netcdf configure run if they are available.

Posted by: mhermida
Apr 27, 2011

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