using options for './configure' for software builds..

Mohamed Eldesoky m.eldesoky at tedata.net
Wed Sep 8 13:07:42 UTC 2004


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On Wednesday 08 September 2004 2:51 pm, bruce wrote:
> hi...
>
> new to building software for linux and i have a pretty basic question.
>
> when you're building software apps (http/ldpa/etc...) and you want to
> change the './configure' options used for the app, i'm trying to find out
> if there's a way to add the options to a file, and then point to the file.
> or if there's a way to add the options for the './configure' cmd to an
> already existing file...
>

./configure `cat option_file`

This is a back-tick.

> ie, instead of doing:
>   ./configure --option1 --option2....
>   ./configure option_file
>
> option_file
>   --option1
>   --option2
>   .
>   .
>   .
>
> in this case option_file would have the optins....
>
> so how does this get accomplished under linux???
>
> i'm sure there's a way to not have to continue to retype the options, i
> just need to know what the correct way is!
>
> thanks
>
> -bruce

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Mohamed Eldesoky
Systems Engineer
RedHat Certified Engineer
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