15.9 configure Invocation

configure recognizes the following options to control how it operates.

--help

-h

Print a summary of the options to configure, and exit.

--version

-V

Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the configure script, and exit.

--cache-file=file

Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in file, traditionally config.cache. file defaults to /dev/null to disable caching.

--config-cache

-C

Alias for --cache-file=config.cache.

--quiet

--silent

-q

Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. To suppress all normal output, redirect it to /dev/null (any error messages will still be shown).

--srcdir=dir

Look for the package's source code in directory dir. Usually configure can determine that directory automatically.

configure also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. Run ‘configure --help’ for more details.