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- What are various options arguments for . configure in Linux
So, for knowing all possible parameters which can be passed to the configure script in the top source directory you should also have a look at the configure scripts in each possible subdirectory For example, in the top source directory of binutils-2 34 tarball there are --with-sysroot and --with-lib-path parameters with configure script
- Why always . configure; make; make install; as 3 separate steps?
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 a typical . configure do in Linux? - Stack Overflow
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 configure script from configure ac, but sometimes you need to patch up the macro libraries When you need to do that, run aclocal and it will try to verify that all the macros are properly defined (and
- What does --prefix do exactly when used in . configure?
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
- What does . configure; make; make install do? - Ask Ubuntu
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?
- What . configure make and make install does [closed]
I would like to know the exact background tasks that happen when you install an application from source What happens when you run configure, make, and make install? I tried googling a bit about
- cmd - How to run . configure on windows - Stack Overflow
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 windows So, it all depends on what you really want to build
- cross compiling - Whats the difference of . configure option . . .
The script configure accepts 3 options --build, --host and --target I'm confusing their roles What's the difference and semantics of them?
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