1 Basic Installation 2 ================== 3 4 These are generic installation instructions. 5 6 The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for 7 various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses 8 those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package. 9 It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent 10 definitions. Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that 11 you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file 12 `config.cache' that saves the results of its tests to speed up 13 reconfiguring, and a file `config.log' containing compiler output 14 (useful mainly for debugging `configure'). 15 16 If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try 17 to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail 18 diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can 19 be considered for the next release. If at some point `config.cache' 20 contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it. 21 22 The file `configure.in' is used to create `configure' by a program 23 called `autoconf'. You only need `configure.in' if you want to change 24 it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'. 25 26 The simplest way to compile this package is: 27 28 1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type 29 `./configure' to configure the package for your system. If you're 30 using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type 31 `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute 32 `configure' itself. 33 34 Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some 35 messages telling which features it is checking for. 36 37 2. Type `make' to compile the package. 38 39 3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with 40 the package. 41 42 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and 43 documentation. 44 45 5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the 46 source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the 47 files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for 48 a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is 49 also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly 50 for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get 51 all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came 52 with the distribution. 53 54 Compilers and Options 55 ===================== 56 57 Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that 58 the `configure' script does not know about. You can give `configure' 59 initial values for variables by setting them in the environment. Using 60 a Bourne-compatible shell, you can do that on the command line like 61 this: 62 CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure 63 64 Or on systems that have the `env' program, you can do it like this: 65 env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure 66 67 Compiling For Multiple Architectures 68 ==================================== 69 70 You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the 71 same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their 72 own directory. To do this, you must use a version of `make' that 73 supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. `cd' to the 74 directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run 75 the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the 76 source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'. 77 78 If you have to use a `make' that does not supports the `VPATH' 79 variable, you have to compile the package for one architecture at a time 80 in the source code directory. After you have installed the package for 81 one architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring for another 82 architecture. 83 84 Installation Names 85 ================== 86 87 By default, `make install' will install the package's files in 88 `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an 89 installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the 90 option `--prefix=PATH'. 91 92 You can specify separate installation prefixes for 93 architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you 94 give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH', the package will use 95 PATH as the prefix for installing programs and libraries. 96 Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix. 97 98 If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed 99 with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the 100 option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'. 101 102 Optional Features 103 ================= 104 105 Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to 106 `configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package. 107 They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE 108 is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System). The 109 `README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the 110 package recognizes. 111 112 For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually 113 find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't, 114 you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and 115 `--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations. 116 117 Specifying the System Type 118 ========================== 119 120 There may be some features `configure' can not figure out 121 automatically, but needs to determine by the type of host the package 122 will run on. Usually `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints 123 a message saying it can not guess the host type, give it the 124 `--host=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system 125 type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name with three fields: 126 CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM 127 128 See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If 129 `config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't 130 need to know the host type. 131 132 If you are building compiler tools for cross-compiling, you can also 133 use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will 134 produce code for and the `--build=TYPE' option to select the type of 135 system on which you are compiling the package. 136 137 Sharing Defaults 138 ================ 139 140 If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share, 141 you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives 142 default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'. 143 `configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then 144 `PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the 145 `CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script. 146 A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script. 147 148 Operation Controls 149 ================== 150 151 `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it 152 operates. 153 154 `--cache-file=FILE' 155 Use and save the results of the tests in FILE instead of 156 `./config.cache'. Set FILE to `/dev/null' to disable caching, for 157 debugging `configure'. 158 159 `--help' 160 Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit. 161 162 `--quiet' 163 `--silent' 164 `-q' 165 Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. 166 167 `--srcdir=DIR' 168 Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually 169 `configure' can determine that directory automatically. 170 171 `--version' 172 Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure' 173 script, and exit. 174 175 `configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. 176 177
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