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I would like ./configure to link to a library and some include files. My library is stored in /home/foo/sw/lib/ and my files are stored in /home/foo/sw/include. ./configure --help throws out the
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?
When you install software with make install or sudo make install, different files are placed in different directories. Executables that provide commands the user is intended to run usually go in a bin directory, libraries usually go in a lib directory, manual pages usually go in a man directory, and so forth. When you run ./configure, the --prefix option lets you specify where those ...
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 ...
The 'configure' command is NOT a standard Linux/UNIX command. configure is a script that is generally provided with the source of most standardized type Linux packages and contains code that will "patch" and localize the source distribution so that it will compile and load on your local Linux system. Sometimes configure is put on your disk without the execute bit set, so the configuration ...