A Configure script is an executable script designed to aid in developing a program to be run on a wide number of different computers.
Questions tagged [configure]
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Verbose output of ./configure not verbose at all
I have a problem installing OpenOCD:
checking for ftd2xx.h... yes
checking for library containing FT_GetLibraryVersion... no
Said library is installed and tested.
In hopes of seeing where is configure looking for the library, I passed the verbose…
Vorac
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Recommended way to pass build parameter to configure
It appears that passing the preferred compiler to configure is very different for different projects. For example, if I want to build tcc with clang I must do ./configure --cc=clang but in most other cases a project would understand the ./configure…
Niklas Rosencrantz
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Configure error "C compiler cannot create executables"
I have Linux Mint 17.1 (32bit) installed and am trying to install Comsport (from Sourceforge) which allows Nike+ GPS watch software to run on Linux vs M$.
I have unzipped the folder with the Configure file in it and open Terminal, type in…
ken
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./configure, how to provide a different executable during the checking phase
I am trying to install the MonoDevelop IDE from source.
One of its prerequisites is Mono 2.10.
Unfortunately the preinstalled mono runtime on my current Ubuntu system is 2.6.7.
I managed to make a parallel mono install on my system. It is located at…
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configure package in non-standard way and resolve library requirements
I am installing a package (dia-0.96.1) in non-standard way on opensuse-11 system which I don't have root access. When I start to configure the package with command:
./configure --prefix=/home/myusername/dia
I get the error: No package …
pasha
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configure midnight commander build
In short: there's no configure executable file in mc repo.
Coming from this thread
How do I *completely* disable the Ctrl-O shortcut in Midnight Commander?
where it became obvious the only way to solve my 'ctrl-o' binding problem is to recompile mc…
xropi
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Know what flags were used with configure script after compiling
Let's say I'm compiling some application (codebase in C, using gcc as default compiler, git cloned from github...) and doing ./configure --flags1 --flags2 ...
And after compiling finish, i want to know the flags i used on ./configure (in this…
Nordine Lotfi
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How can we append CFLAGS when doing ./configure
I got a configure script file that originally will create some CFLAGS when doing ./configure. I am wondering how can we append some other CFLAGS when doing ./configure without changing the original CFLAGS like:
./configure CFLAGS+="some…
