configure
options
Here is a summary of the configure
options and arguments that
are most often useful for building GDB. configure
also has
several other options not listed here. See Info file `configure.info', node `What Configure Does', for a full explanation of configure
.
configure [--help] [--prefix=dir] [--exec-prefix=dir] [--srcdir=dirname] [--norecursion] [--rm] [--target=target] host
You may introduce options with a single `-' rather than `--' if you prefer; but you may abbreviate option names if you use `--'.
--help
configure
.
--prefix=dir
--exec-prefix=dir
--srcdir=dirname
make
, or another
make
that implements the VPATH
feature.configure
writes configuration specific files in
the current directory, but arranges for them to use the source in the
directory dirname. configure
creates directories under
the working directory in parallel to the source directories below
dirname.
--norecursion
configure
is executed; do not
propagate configuration to subdirectories.
--target=target
host ...
There are many other options available as well, but they are generally needed for special purposes only.
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