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.