[Linux-disciples] Compiling from source -- config options

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:18:58PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>> (3) If your really wanted to do the above, you would do
>>
>>   sudo ./configure --with-mail-gid=mailman
>>
>> (3)(a) You shouldn't generally have "dot" in your path; it can be a security
>> hole.
> I don't have '.' in my path, per Dylan's recommendation some
> months ago:
> http://lists.bostoncoop.net/pipermail/linux-disciples/2005-June/001359.html
> 'configure' isn't in the install dir or any of its subdirs.

Hmm. Well, the standard thing is to have a "configure" file and a
"Makefile." That's old school, anyway. You run ./configure first and then make.

Modern and more complex packages tend to use autoconf/automake/autotools,
which I don't fully understand, but usually there will be something like a
configure.in or configure.am and you can run autogen or something like that
to get it to work.

This is where my actually knowledge of how to do things ends and my "poking
around until it works" begins. But it's really not to hard. I do know that
I've never done anything like make configure in the hundreds of packages
I've built.

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