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.