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@@ -8,20 +8,27 @@ various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package. It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent definitions. Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that -you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file -`config.cache' that saves the results of its tests to speed up -reconfiguring, and a file `config.log' containing compiler output -(useful mainly for debugging `configure'). +you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, and a +file `config.log' containing compiler output (useful mainly for +debugging `configure'). + + It can also use an optional file (typically called `config.cache' +and enabled with `--cache-file=config.cache' or simply `-C') that saves +the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring. (Caching is +disabled by default to prevent problems with accidental use of stale +cache files.) If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can -be considered for the next release. If at some point `config.cache' -contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it. +be considered for the next release. If you are using the cache, and at +some point `config.cache' contains results you don't want to keep, you +may remove or edit it. - The file `configure.in' is used to create `configure' by a program -called `autoconf'. You only need `configure.in' if you want to change -it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'. + The file `configure.ac' (or `configure.in') is used to create +`configure' by a program called `autoconf'. You only need +`configure.ac' if you want to change it or regenerate `configure' using +a newer version of `autoconf'. The simplest way to compile this package is: @@ -55,14 +62,15 @@ Compilers and Options ===================== Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that -the `configure' script does not know about. You can give `configure' -initial values for variables by setting them in the environment. Using -a Bourne-compatible shell, you can do that on the command line like -this: - CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure +the `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help' +for details on some of the pertinent environment variables. + + You can give `configure' initial values for variables by setting +them in the environment. You can do that on the command line like this: -Or on systems that have the `env' program, you can do it like this: - env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure + ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix + + *Note Environment Variables::, for more details. Compiling For Multiple Architectures ==================================== @@ -75,7 +83,7 @@ directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'. - If you have to use a `make' that does not supports the `VPATH' + If you have to use a `make' that does not support the `VPATH' variable, you have to compile the package for one architecture at a time in the source code directory. After you have installed the package for one architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring for another @@ -122,22 +130,36 @@ you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and Specifying the System Type ========================== - There may be some features `configure' can not figure out + There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out automatically, but needs to determine by the type of host the package will run on. Usually `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints -a message saying it can not guess the host type, give it the -`--host=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system -type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name with three fields: +a message saying it cannot guess the host type, give it the +`--build=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system +type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form: + CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM -See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If +where SYSTEM can have one of these forms: + + OS + KERNEL-OS + + See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If `config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't need to know the host type. - If you are building compiler tools for cross-compiling, you can also + If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will -produce code for and the `--build=TYPE' option to select the type of -system on which you are compiling the package. +produce code for. + + If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a +platform different from the build platform, you should specify the host +platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will eventually be +run) with `--host=TYPE'. In this case, you should also specify the +build platform with `--build=TYPE', because, in this case, it may not +be possible to guess the build platform (it sometimes involves +compiling and running simple test programs, and this can't be done if +the compiler is a cross compiler). Sharing Defaults ================ @@ -150,20 +172,44 @@ default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'. `CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script. A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script. -Operation Controls -================== +Environment Variables +===================== + + Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the +environment passed to configure. However, some packages may run +configure again during the build, and the customized values of these +variables may be lost. In order to avoid this problem, you should set +them in the `configure' command line, using `VAR=value'. For example: + + ./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc + +will cause the specified gcc to be used as the C compiler (unless it is +overridden in the site shell script). + +`configure' Invocation +====================== `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it operates. -`--cache-file=FILE' - Use and save the results of the tests in FILE instead of - `./config.cache'. Set FILE to `/dev/null' to disable caching, for - debugging `configure'. - `--help' +`-h' Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit. +`--version' +`-V' + Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure' + script, and exit. + +`--cache-file=FILE' + Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE, + traditionally `config.cache'. FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to + disable caching. + +`--config-cache' +`-C' + Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'. + `--quiet' `--silent' `-q' @@ -175,8 +221,6 @@ operates. Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually `configure' can determine that directory automatically. -`--version' - Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure' - script, and exit. +`configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. Run +`configure --help' for more details. -`configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. |