| Chris@4 | 1 Installation Instructions | 
| Chris@4 | 2 ************************* | 
| Chris@4 | 3 | 
| Chris@55 | 4 Copyright (C) 1994-1996, 1999-2002, 2004-2013 Free Software Foundation, | 
| Chris@55 | 5 Inc. | 
| Chris@4 | 6 | 
| Chris@4 | 7    Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | 
| Chris@4 | 8 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright | 
| Chris@4 | 9 notice and this notice are preserved.  This file is offered as-is, | 
| Chris@4 | 10 without warranty of any kind. | 
| Chris@4 | 11 | 
| Chris@4 | 12 Basic Installation | 
| Chris@4 | 13 ================== | 
| Chris@4 | 14 | 
| Chris@55 | 15    Briefly, the shell command `./configure && make && make install' | 
| Chris@55 | 16 should configure, build, and install this package.  The following | 
| Chris@4 | 17 more-detailed instructions are generic; see the `README' file for | 
| Chris@4 | 18 instructions specific to this package.  Some packages provide this | 
| Chris@4 | 19 `INSTALL' file but do not implement all of the features documented | 
| Chris@4 | 20 below.  The lack of an optional feature in a given package is not | 
| Chris@4 | 21 necessarily a bug.  More recommendations for GNU packages can be found | 
| Chris@4 | 22 in *note Makefile Conventions: (standards)Makefile Conventions. | 
| Chris@4 | 23 | 
| Chris@4 | 24    The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for | 
| Chris@4 | 25 various system-dependent variables used during compilation.  It uses | 
| Chris@4 | 26 those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package. | 
| Chris@4 | 27 It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent | 
| Chris@4 | 28 definitions.  Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that | 
| Chris@4 | 29 you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, and a | 
| Chris@4 | 30 file `config.log' containing compiler output (useful mainly for | 
| Chris@4 | 31 debugging `configure'). | 
| Chris@4 | 32 | 
| Chris@4 | 33    It can also use an optional file (typically called `config.cache' | 
| Chris@4 | 34 and enabled with `--cache-file=config.cache' or simply `-C') that saves | 
| Chris@4 | 35 the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring.  Caching is | 
| Chris@4 | 36 disabled by default to prevent problems with accidental use of stale | 
| Chris@4 | 37 cache files. | 
| Chris@4 | 38 | 
| Chris@4 | 39    If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try | 
| Chris@4 | 40 to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail | 
| Chris@4 | 41 diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can | 
| Chris@4 | 42 be considered for the next release.  If you are using the cache, and at | 
| Chris@4 | 43 some point `config.cache' contains results you don't want to keep, you | 
| Chris@4 | 44 may remove or edit it. | 
| Chris@4 | 45 | 
| Chris@4 | 46    The file `configure.ac' (or `configure.in') is used to create | 
| Chris@4 | 47 `configure' by a program called `autoconf'.  You need `configure.ac' if | 
| Chris@4 | 48 you want to change it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version | 
| Chris@4 | 49 of `autoconf'. | 
| Chris@4 | 50 | 
| Chris@4 | 51    The simplest way to compile this package is: | 
| Chris@4 | 52 | 
| Chris@4 | 53   1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type | 
| Chris@4 | 54      `./configure' to configure the package for your system. | 
| Chris@4 | 55 | 
| Chris@4 | 56      Running `configure' might take a while.  While running, it prints | 
| Chris@4 | 57      some messages telling which features it is checking for. | 
| Chris@4 | 58 | 
| Chris@4 | 59   2. Type `make' to compile the package. | 
| Chris@4 | 60 | 
| Chris@4 | 61   3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with | 
| Chris@4 | 62      the package, generally using the just-built uninstalled binaries. | 
| Chris@4 | 63 | 
| Chris@4 | 64   4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and | 
| Chris@4 | 65      documentation.  When installing into a prefix owned by root, it is | 
| Chris@4 | 66      recommended that the package be configured and built as a regular | 
| Chris@4 | 67      user, and only the `make install' phase executed with root | 
| Chris@4 | 68      privileges. | 
| Chris@4 | 69 | 
| Chris@4 | 70   5. Optionally, type `make installcheck' to repeat any self-tests, but | 
| Chris@4 | 71      this time using the binaries in their final installed location. | 
| Chris@4 | 72      This target does not install anything.  Running this target as a | 
| Chris@4 | 73      regular user, particularly if the prior `make install' required | 
| Chris@4 | 74      root privileges, verifies that the installation completed | 
| Chris@4 | 75      correctly. | 
| Chris@4 | 76 | 
| Chris@4 | 77   6. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the | 
| Chris@4 | 78      source code directory by typing `make clean'.  To also remove the | 
| Chris@4 | 79      files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for | 
| Chris@4 | 80      a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'.  There is | 
| Chris@4 | 81      also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly | 
| Chris@4 | 82      for the package's developers.  If you use it, you may have to get | 
| Chris@4 | 83      all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came | 
| Chris@4 | 84      with the distribution. | 
| Chris@4 | 85 | 
| Chris@4 | 86   7. Often, you can also type `make uninstall' to remove the installed | 
| Chris@4 | 87      files again.  In practice, not all packages have tested that | 
| Chris@4 | 88      uninstallation works correctly, even though it is required by the | 
| Chris@4 | 89      GNU Coding Standards. | 
| Chris@4 | 90 | 
| Chris@4 | 91   8. Some packages, particularly those that use Automake, provide `make | 
| Chris@4 | 92      distcheck', which can by used by developers to test that all other | 
| Chris@4 | 93      targets like `make install' and `make uninstall' work correctly. | 
| Chris@4 | 94      This target is generally not run by end users. | 
| Chris@4 | 95 | 
| Chris@4 | 96 Compilers and Options | 
| Chris@4 | 97 ===================== | 
| Chris@4 | 98 | 
| Chris@4 | 99    Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that | 
| Chris@4 | 100 the `configure' script does not know about.  Run `./configure --help' | 
| Chris@4 | 101 for details on some of the pertinent environment variables. | 
| Chris@4 | 102 | 
| Chris@4 | 103    You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters | 
| Chris@4 | 104 by setting variables in the command line or in the environment.  Here | 
| Chris@4 | 105 is an example: | 
| Chris@4 | 106 | 
| Chris@4 | 107      ./configure CC=c99 CFLAGS=-g LIBS=-lposix | 
| Chris@4 | 108 | 
| Chris@4 | 109    *Note Defining Variables::, for more details. | 
| Chris@4 | 110 | 
| Chris@4 | 111 Compiling For Multiple Architectures | 
| Chris@4 | 112 ==================================== | 
| Chris@4 | 113 | 
| Chris@4 | 114    You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the | 
| Chris@4 | 115 same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their | 
| Chris@4 | 116 own directory.  To do this, you can use GNU `make'.  `cd' to the | 
| Chris@4 | 117 directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run | 
| Chris@4 | 118 the `configure' script.  `configure' automatically checks for the | 
| Chris@4 | 119 source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.  This | 
| Chris@4 | 120 is known as a "VPATH" build. | 
| Chris@4 | 121 | 
| Chris@4 | 122    With a non-GNU `make', it is safer to compile the package for one | 
| Chris@4 | 123 architecture at a time in the source code directory.  After you have | 
| Chris@4 | 124 installed the package for one architecture, use `make distclean' before | 
| Chris@4 | 125 reconfiguring for another architecture. | 
| Chris@4 | 126 | 
| Chris@4 | 127    On MacOS X 10.5 and later systems, you can create libraries and | 
| Chris@4 | 128 executables that work on multiple system types--known as "fat" or | 
| Chris@4 | 129 "universal" binaries--by specifying multiple `-arch' options to the | 
| Chris@4 | 130 compiler but only a single `-arch' option to the preprocessor.  Like | 
| Chris@4 | 131 this: | 
| Chris@4 | 132 | 
| Chris@4 | 133      ./configure CC="gcc -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64" \ | 
| Chris@4 | 134                  CXX="g++ -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64" \ | 
| Chris@4 | 135                  CPP="gcc -E" CXXCPP="g++ -E" | 
| Chris@4 | 136 | 
| Chris@4 | 137    This is not guaranteed to produce working output in all cases, you | 
| Chris@4 | 138 may have to build one architecture at a time and combine the results | 
| Chris@4 | 139 using the `lipo' tool if you have problems. | 
| Chris@4 | 140 | 
| Chris@4 | 141 Installation Names | 
| Chris@4 | 142 ================== | 
| Chris@4 | 143 | 
| Chris@4 | 144    By default, `make install' installs the package's commands under | 
| Chris@4 | 145 `/usr/local/bin', include files under `/usr/local/include', etc.  You | 
| Chris@4 | 146 can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving | 
| Chris@4 | 147 `configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX', where PREFIX must be an | 
| Chris@4 | 148 absolute file name. | 
| Chris@4 | 149 | 
| Chris@4 | 150    You can specify separate installation prefixes for | 
| Chris@4 | 151 architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files.  If you | 
| Chris@4 | 152 pass the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX' to `configure', the package uses | 
| Chris@4 | 153 PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries. | 
| Chris@4 | 154 Documentation and other data files still use the regular prefix. | 
| Chris@4 | 155 | 
| Chris@4 | 156    In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give | 
| Chris@4 | 157 options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular | 
| Chris@4 | 158 kinds of files.  Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories | 
| Chris@4 | 159 you can set and what kinds of files go in them.  In general, the | 
| Chris@4 | 160 default for these options is expressed in terms of `${prefix}', so that | 
| Chris@4 | 161 specifying just `--prefix' will affect all of the other directory | 
| Chris@4 | 162 specifications that were not explicitly provided. | 
| Chris@4 | 163 | 
| Chris@4 | 164    The most portable way to affect installation locations is to pass the | 
| Chris@4 | 165 correct locations to `configure'; however, many packages provide one or | 
| Chris@4 | 166 both of the following shortcuts of passing variable assignments to the | 
| Chris@4 | 167 `make install' command line to change installation locations without | 
| Chris@4 | 168 having to reconfigure or recompile. | 
| Chris@4 | 169 | 
| Chris@4 | 170    The first method involves providing an override variable for each | 
| Chris@4 | 171 affected directory.  For example, `make install | 
| Chris@4 | 172 prefix=/alternate/directory' will choose an alternate location for all | 
| Chris@4 | 173 directory configuration variables that were expressed in terms of | 
| Chris@4 | 174 `${prefix}'.  Any directories that were specified during `configure', | 
| Chris@4 | 175 but not in terms of `${prefix}', must each be overridden at install | 
| Chris@4 | 176 time for the entire installation to be relocated.  The approach of | 
| Chris@4 | 177 makefile variable overrides for each directory variable is required by | 
| Chris@4 | 178 the GNU Coding Standards, and ideally causes no recompilation. | 
| Chris@4 | 179 However, some platforms have known limitations with the semantics of | 
| Chris@4 | 180 shared libraries that end up requiring recompilation when using this | 
| Chris@4 | 181 method, particularly noticeable in packages that use GNU Libtool. | 
| Chris@4 | 182 | 
| Chris@4 | 183    The second method involves providing the `DESTDIR' variable.  For | 
| Chris@4 | 184 example, `make install DESTDIR=/alternate/directory' will prepend | 
| Chris@4 | 185 `/alternate/directory' before all installation names.  The approach of | 
| Chris@4 | 186 `DESTDIR' overrides is not required by the GNU Coding Standards, and | 
| Chris@4 | 187 does not work on platforms that have drive letters.  On the other hand, | 
| Chris@4 | 188 it does better at avoiding recompilation issues, and works well even | 
| Chris@4 | 189 when some directory options were not specified in terms of `${prefix}' | 
| Chris@4 | 190 at `configure' time. | 
| Chris@4 | 191 | 
| Chris@4 | 192 Optional Features | 
| Chris@4 | 193 ================= | 
| Chris@4 | 194 | 
| Chris@4 | 195    If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed | 
| Chris@4 | 196 with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the | 
| Chris@4 | 197 option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'. | 
| Chris@4 | 198 | 
| Chris@4 | 199    Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to | 
| Chris@4 | 200 `configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package. | 
| Chris@4 | 201 They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE | 
| Chris@4 | 202 is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System).  The | 
| Chris@4 | 203 `README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the | 
| Chris@4 | 204 package recognizes. | 
| Chris@4 | 205 | 
| Chris@4 | 206    For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually | 
| Chris@4 | 207 find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't, | 
| Chris@4 | 208 you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and | 
| Chris@4 | 209 `--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations. | 
| Chris@4 | 210 | 
| Chris@4 | 211    Some packages offer the ability to configure how verbose the | 
| Chris@4 | 212 execution of `make' will be.  For these packages, running `./configure | 
| Chris@4 | 213 --enable-silent-rules' sets the default to minimal output, which can be | 
| Chris@4 | 214 overridden with `make V=1'; while running `./configure | 
| Chris@4 | 215 --disable-silent-rules' sets the default to verbose, which can be | 
| Chris@4 | 216 overridden with `make V=0'. | 
| Chris@4 | 217 | 
| Chris@4 | 218 Particular systems | 
| Chris@4 | 219 ================== | 
| Chris@4 | 220 | 
| Chris@4 | 221    On HP-UX, the default C compiler is not ANSI C compatible.  If GNU | 
| Chris@4 | 222 CC is not installed, it is recommended to use the following options in | 
| Chris@4 | 223 order to use an ANSI C compiler: | 
| Chris@4 | 224 | 
| Chris@4 | 225      ./configure CC="cc -Ae -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500" | 
| Chris@4 | 226 | 
| Chris@4 | 227 and if that doesn't work, install pre-built binaries of GCC for HP-UX. | 
| Chris@4 | 228 | 
| Chris@55 | 229    HP-UX `make' updates targets which have the same time stamps as | 
| Chris@55 | 230 their prerequisites, which makes it generally unusable when shipped | 
| Chris@55 | 231 generated files such as `configure' are involved.  Use GNU `make' | 
| Chris@55 | 232 instead. | 
| Chris@55 | 233 | 
| Chris@4 | 234    On OSF/1 a.k.a. Tru64, some versions of the default C compiler cannot | 
| Chris@4 | 235 parse its `<wchar.h>' header file.  The option `-nodtk' can be used as | 
| Chris@4 | 236 a workaround.  If GNU CC is not installed, it is therefore recommended | 
| Chris@4 | 237 to try | 
| Chris@4 | 238 | 
| Chris@4 | 239      ./configure CC="cc" | 
| Chris@4 | 240 | 
| Chris@4 | 241 and if that doesn't work, try | 
| Chris@4 | 242 | 
| Chris@4 | 243      ./configure CC="cc -nodtk" | 
| Chris@4 | 244 | 
| Chris@4 | 245    On Solaris, don't put `/usr/ucb' early in your `PATH'.  This | 
| Chris@4 | 246 directory contains several dysfunctional programs; working variants of | 
| Chris@4 | 247 these programs are available in `/usr/bin'.  So, if you need `/usr/ucb' | 
| Chris@4 | 248 in your `PATH', put it _after_ `/usr/bin'. | 
| Chris@4 | 249 | 
| Chris@4 | 250    On Haiku, software installed for all users goes in `/boot/common', | 
| Chris@4 | 251 not `/usr/local'.  It is recommended to use the following options: | 
| Chris@4 | 252 | 
| Chris@4 | 253      ./configure --prefix=/boot/common | 
| Chris@4 | 254 | 
| Chris@4 | 255 Specifying the System Type | 
| Chris@4 | 256 ========================== | 
| Chris@4 | 257 | 
| Chris@4 | 258    There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out | 
| Chris@4 | 259 automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package | 
| Chris@4 | 260 will run on.  Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the | 
| Chris@4 | 261 _same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints | 
| Chris@4 | 262 a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the | 
| Chris@4 | 263 `--build=TYPE' option.  TYPE can either be a short name for the system | 
| Chris@4 | 264 type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form: | 
| Chris@4 | 265 | 
| Chris@4 | 266      CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM | 
| Chris@4 | 267 | 
| Chris@4 | 268 where SYSTEM can have one of these forms: | 
| Chris@4 | 269 | 
| Chris@4 | 270      OS | 
| Chris@4 | 271      KERNEL-OS | 
| Chris@4 | 272 | 
| Chris@4 | 273    See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field.  If | 
| Chris@4 | 274 `config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't | 
| Chris@4 | 275 need to know the machine type. | 
| Chris@4 | 276 | 
| Chris@4 | 277    If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should | 
| Chris@4 | 278 use the option `--target=TYPE' to select the type of system they will | 
| Chris@4 | 279 produce code for. | 
| Chris@4 | 280 | 
| Chris@4 | 281    If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a | 
| Chris@4 | 282 platform different from the build platform, you should specify the | 
| Chris@4 | 283 "host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will | 
| Chris@4 | 284 eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'. | 
| Chris@4 | 285 | 
| Chris@4 | 286 Sharing Defaults | 
| Chris@4 | 287 ================ | 
| Chris@4 | 288 | 
| Chris@4 | 289    If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share, | 
| Chris@4 | 290 you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives | 
| Chris@4 | 291 default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'. | 
| Chris@4 | 292 `configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then | 
| Chris@4 | 293 `PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists.  Or, you can set the | 
| Chris@4 | 294 `CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script. | 
| Chris@4 | 295 A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script. | 
| Chris@4 | 296 | 
| Chris@4 | 297 Defining Variables | 
| Chris@4 | 298 ================== | 
| Chris@4 | 299 | 
| Chris@4 | 300    Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the | 
| Chris@4 | 301 environment passed to `configure'.  However, some packages may run | 
| Chris@4 | 302 configure again during the build, and the customized values of these | 
| Chris@4 | 303 variables may be lost.  In order to avoid this problem, you should set | 
| Chris@4 | 304 them in the `configure' command line, using `VAR=value'.  For example: | 
| Chris@4 | 305 | 
| Chris@4 | 306      ./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc | 
| Chris@4 | 307 | 
| Chris@4 | 308 causes the specified `gcc' to be used as the C compiler (unless it is | 
| Chris@4 | 309 overridden in the site shell script). | 
| Chris@4 | 310 | 
| Chris@4 | 311 Unfortunately, this technique does not work for `CONFIG_SHELL' due to | 
| Chris@55 | 312 an Autoconf limitation.  Until the limitation is lifted, you can use | 
| Chris@55 | 313 this workaround: | 
| Chris@4 | 314 | 
| Chris@55 | 315      CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash | 
| Chris@4 | 316 | 
| Chris@4 | 317 `configure' Invocation | 
| Chris@4 | 318 ====================== | 
| Chris@4 | 319 | 
| Chris@4 | 320    `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it | 
| Chris@4 | 321 operates. | 
| Chris@4 | 322 | 
| Chris@4 | 323 `--help' | 
| Chris@4 | 324 `-h' | 
| Chris@4 | 325      Print a summary of all of the options to `configure', and exit. | 
| Chris@4 | 326 | 
| Chris@4 | 327 `--help=short' | 
| Chris@4 | 328 `--help=recursive' | 
| Chris@4 | 329      Print a summary of the options unique to this package's | 
| Chris@4 | 330      `configure', and exit.  The `short' variant lists options used | 
| Chris@4 | 331      only in the top level, while the `recursive' variant lists options | 
| Chris@4 | 332      also present in any nested packages. | 
| Chris@4 | 333 | 
| Chris@4 | 334 `--version' | 
| Chris@4 | 335 `-V' | 
| Chris@4 | 336      Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure' | 
| Chris@4 | 337      script, and exit. | 
| Chris@4 | 338 | 
| Chris@4 | 339 `--cache-file=FILE' | 
| Chris@4 | 340      Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE, | 
| Chris@4 | 341      traditionally `config.cache'.  FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to | 
| Chris@4 | 342      disable caching. | 
| Chris@4 | 343 | 
| Chris@4 | 344 `--config-cache' | 
| Chris@4 | 345 `-C' | 
| Chris@4 | 346      Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'. | 
| Chris@4 | 347 | 
| Chris@4 | 348 `--quiet' | 
| Chris@4 | 349 `--silent' | 
| Chris@4 | 350 `-q' | 
| Chris@4 | 351      Do not print messages saying which checks are being made.  To | 
| Chris@4 | 352      suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error | 
| Chris@4 | 353      messages will still be shown). | 
| Chris@4 | 354 | 
| Chris@4 | 355 `--srcdir=DIR' | 
| Chris@4 | 356      Look for the package's source code in directory DIR.  Usually | 
| Chris@4 | 357      `configure' can determine that directory automatically. | 
| Chris@4 | 358 | 
| Chris@4 | 359 `--prefix=DIR' | 
| Chris@4 | 360      Use DIR as the installation prefix.  *note Installation Names:: | 
| Chris@4 | 361      for more details, including other options available for fine-tuning | 
| Chris@4 | 362      the installation locations. | 
| Chris@4 | 363 | 
| Chris@4 | 364 `--no-create' | 
| Chris@4 | 365 `-n' | 
| Chris@4 | 366      Run the configure checks, but stop before creating any output | 
| Chris@4 | 367      files. | 
| Chris@4 | 368 | 
| Chris@4 | 369 `configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options.  Run | 
| Chris@4 | 370 `configure --help' for more details. |