| 1 | Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software
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| 2 | Foundation, Inc.
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| 3 |
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| 4 | This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
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| 5 | unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
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| 6 |
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| 7 | Basic Installation
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| 8 | ==================
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| 9 |
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| 10 | These are generic installation instructions.
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| 11 |
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| 12 | The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
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| 13 | various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses
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| 14 | those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
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| 15 | It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent
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| 16 | definitions. Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that
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| 17 | you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, and a
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| 18 | file `config.log' containing compiler output (useful mainly for
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| 19 | debugging `configure').
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| 20 |
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| 21 | It can also use an optional file (typically called `config.cache'
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| 22 | and enabled with `--cache-file=config.cache' or simply `-C') that saves
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| 23 | the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring. (Caching is
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| 24 | disabled by default to prevent problems with accidental use of stale
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| 25 | cache files.)
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| 26 |
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| 27 | If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
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| 28 | to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
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| 29 | diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
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| 30 | be considered for the next release. If you are using the cache, and at
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| 31 | some point `config.cache' contains results you don't want to keep, you
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| 32 | may remove or edit it.
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| 33 |
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| 34 | The file `configure.ac' (or `configure.in') is used to create
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| 35 | `configure' by a program called `autoconf'. You only need
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| 36 | `configure.ac' if you want to change it or regenerate `configure' using
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| 37 | a newer version of `autoconf'.
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| 38 |
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| 39 | The simplest way to compile this package is:
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| 40 |
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| 41 | 1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
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| 42 | `./configure' to configure the package for your system. If you're
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| 43 | using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type
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| 44 | `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute
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| 45 | `configure' itself.
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| 46 |
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| 47 | Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some
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| 48 | messages telling which features it is checking for.
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| 49 |
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| 50 | 2. Type `make' to compile the package.
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| 51 |
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| 52 | 3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
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| 53 | the package.
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| 54 |
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| 55 | 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
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| 56 | documentation.
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| 57 |
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| 58 | 5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
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| 59 | source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
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| 60 | files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
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| 61 | a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is
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| 62 | also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
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| 63 | for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get
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| 64 | all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
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| 65 | with the distribution.
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| 66 |
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| 67 | Compilers and Options
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| 68 | =====================
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| 69 |
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| 70 | Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
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| 71 | the `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help'
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| 72 | for details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
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| 73 |
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| 74 | You can give `configure' initial values for variables by setting
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| 75 | them in the environment. You can do that on the command line like this:
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| 76 |
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| 77 | ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
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| 78 |
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| 79 | *Note Defining Variables::, for more details.
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| 80 |
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| 81 | Compiling For Multiple Architectures
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| 82 | ====================================
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| 83 |
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| 84 | You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
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| 85 | same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
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| 86 | own directory. To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
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| 87 | supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. `cd' to the
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| 88 | directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
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| 89 | the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the
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| 90 | source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
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| 91 |
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| 92 | If you have to use a `make' that does not support the `VPATH'
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| 93 | variable, you have to compile the package for one architecture at a
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| 94 | time in the source code directory. After you have installed the
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| 95 | package for one architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring
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| 96 | for another architecture.
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| 97 |
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| 98 | Installation Names
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| 99 | ==================
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| 100 |
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| 101 | By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
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| 102 | `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an
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| 103 | installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
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| 104 | option `--prefix=PATH'.
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| 105 |
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| 106 | You can specify separate installation prefixes for
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| 107 | architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
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| 108 | give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH', the package will use
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| 109 | PATH as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
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| 110 | Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.
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| 111 |
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| 112 | In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
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| 113 | options like `--bindir=PATH' to specify different values for particular
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| 114 | kinds of files. Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
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| 115 | you can set and what kinds of files go in them.
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| 116 |
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| 117 | If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
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| 118 | with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the
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| 119 | option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
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| 120 |
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| 121 | Optional Features
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| 122 | =================
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| 123 |
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| 124 | Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
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| 125 | `configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
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| 126 | They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
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| 127 | is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System). The
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| 128 | `README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the
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| 129 | package recognizes.
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| 130 |
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| 131 | For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually
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| 132 | find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't,
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| 133 | you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and
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| 134 | `--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations.
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| 135 |
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| 136 | Specifying the System Type
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| 137 | ==========================
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| 138 |
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| 139 | There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out
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| 140 | automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package
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| 141 | will run on. Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the
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| 142 | _same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
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| 143 | a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the
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| 144 | `--build=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system
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| 145 | type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form:
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| 146 |
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| 147 | CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM
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| 148 |
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| 149 | where SYSTEM can have one of these forms:
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| 150 |
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| 151 | OS KERNEL-OS
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| 152 |
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| 153 | See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If
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| 154 | `config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
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| 155 | need to know the machine type.
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| 156 |
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| 157 | If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should
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| 158 | use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
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| 159 | produce code for.
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| 160 |
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| 161 | If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a
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| 162 | platform different from the build platform, you should specify the
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| 163 | "host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will
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| 164 | eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'.
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| 165 |
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| 166 | Sharing Defaults
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| 167 | ================
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| 168 |
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| 169 | If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
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| 170 | you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
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| 171 | default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
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| 172 | `configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
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| 173 | `PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the
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| 174 | `CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
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| 175 | A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.
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| 176 |
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| 177 | Defining Variables
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| 178 | ==================
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| 179 |
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| 180 | Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
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| 181 | environment passed to `configure'. However, some packages may run
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| 182 | configure again during the build, and the customized values of these
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| 183 | variables may be lost. In order to avoid this problem, you should set
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| 184 | them in the `configure' command line, using `VAR=value'. For example:
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| 185 |
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| 186 | ./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc
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| 187 |
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| 188 | will cause the specified gcc to be used as the C compiler (unless it is
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| 189 | overridden in the site shell script).
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| 190 |
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| 191 | `configure' Invocation
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| 192 | ======================
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| 193 |
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| 194 | `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
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| 195 | operates.
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| 196 |
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| 197 | `--help'
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| 198 | `-h'
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| 199 | Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.
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| 200 |
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| 201 | `--version'
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| 202 | `-V'
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| 203 | Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
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| 204 | script, and exit.
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| 205 |
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| 206 | `--cache-file=FILE'
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| 207 | Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE,
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| 208 | traditionally `config.cache'. FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to
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| 209 | disable caching.
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| 210 |
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| 211 | `--config-cache'
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| 212 | `-C'
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| 213 | Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'.
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| 214 |
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| 215 | `--quiet'
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| 216 | `--silent'
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| 217 | `-q'
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| 218 | Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. To
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| 219 | suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
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| 220 | messages will still be shown).
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| 221 |
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| 222 | `--srcdir=DIR'
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| 223 | Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
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| 224 | `configure' can determine that directory automatically.
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| 225 |
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| 226 | `configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. Run
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| 227 | `configure --help' for more details.
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| 228 |
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