In configure.ac, search for AC_ARG_WITH and/or AC_ARG_ENABLE. These are the two macros with which extra options are defined, and they might have some additional information in the form of …

Mar 27, 2010 · No, the configure script is an expansion (also using the m4 language) of directives which are put in the configure.ac (or in older systems configure.in) file. Running autoconf will generate the …

Mar 11, 2017 · When you run ./configure --prefix= directory, you are indicating that the software should be installed under the directory directory. But this rarely, if ever, places loose files in directory.

Every time you compile something from source, you go through the same 3 steps: $ ./configure $ make $ make install I understand, that it makes sense to divide the installing process into different...

What does ./configure do? Why make then make install? How does it know where libs are? ( they are all there and loaded but it cant find them.) Why need libs if compiler is supposed to compile?

Feb 27, 2015 · 4 ./configure runs a script named "configure" in the current directory. make runs the program "make" in your path, and make install runs it again with the argument "install". Generally, the …

Dec 21, 2014 · A configure script is just a unix shell script, so it might call all kinds of unix tools or use unix shell features. Only a very limited set of those tools work on Windows, or make sense on …

Feb 28, 2011 · The script ./configure accepts 3 options --build, --host and --target. I'm confusing their roles. What's the difference and semantics of them?

Do configure --help and see what other options are available. It is very common to provide different options to override different locations. By standard, --prefix overrides all of them, so you need to …

The 'configure' command is NOT a standard Linux/UNIX command. configure is a script that is generally provided with the source of most standardized type Linux packages and contains code that will …