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Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
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Configuring Your Package

The GCS describes the configuration process in the "How Configuration Should Work" subsection of Section 7. Up to this point, we've been able to do about everything we've wanted to with Jupiter using only makefiles, so you might be wondering what configuration is actually for. The opening paragraphs of this subsection in the GCS answer our question:

Each GNU distribution should come with a shell script named configure. This script is given arguments which describe the kind of machine and system you want to compile the program for. The configure script must record the configuration options so that they affect compilation.

The description here is the specification of the interface for the configure script in GNU packages. ...

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