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| From | Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: configure |
| Date | 2012-12-18 22:17 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <kaqq2c$m2q$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <4389fcd5-6ea0-40d2-8748-dd217a8a6ff2@googlegroups.com> |
bob wrote: > With almost all Linux software, there is an executable script called > "configure". I guess the idea is you run it before calling "make". > > Anyone know what the story is with that? What do you mean by story? Do you mean the history behind the use of configure scripts or how that sort of script is employed? > I'm seeing one with hcidump that is 152,901 bytes, quite a bulky script. > > Is there some kind of automated utility that generates these things? Yes. One example is a set of tools that are collectively called autotools, which include automake and autoconf. Rui Maciel
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configure bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-12-18 08:46 -0800 Re: configure Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2012-12-18 19:40 +0200 Re: configure Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-12-18 22:17 +0000 Re: configure Alessandro Pellegrini <alessandro.pellegrini@tin.it> - 2013-02-12 12:25 +0100
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