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date Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:03:47 +0000
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cannam@140 1 Installation Instructions
cannam@140 2 *************************
cannam@140 3
cannam@140 4 Copyright (C) 1994-1996, 1999-2002, 2004-2013 Free Software Foundation,
cannam@140 5 Inc.
cannam@140 6
cannam@140 7 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
cannam@140 8 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
cannam@140 9 notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is,
cannam@140 10 without warranty of any kind.
cannam@140 11
cannam@140 12 Basic Installation
cannam@140 13 ==================
cannam@140 14
cannam@140 15 Briefly, the shell command `./configure && make && make install'
cannam@140 16 should configure, build, and install this package. The following
cannam@140 17 more-detailed instructions are generic; see the `README' file for
cannam@140 18 instructions specific to this package. Some packages provide this
cannam@140 19 `INSTALL' file but do not implement all of the features documented
cannam@140 20 below. The lack of an optional feature in a given package is not
cannam@140 21 necessarily a bug. More recommendations for GNU packages can be found
cannam@140 22 in *note Makefile Conventions: (standards)Makefile Conventions.
cannam@140 23
cannam@140 24 The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
cannam@140 25 various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses
cannam@140 26 those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
cannam@140 27 It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent
cannam@140 28 definitions. Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that
cannam@140 29 you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, and a
cannam@140 30 file `config.log' containing compiler output (useful mainly for
cannam@140 31 debugging `configure').
cannam@140 32
cannam@140 33 It can also use an optional file (typically called `config.cache'
cannam@140 34 and enabled with `--cache-file=config.cache' or simply `-C') that saves
cannam@140 35 the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring. Caching is
cannam@140 36 disabled by default to prevent problems with accidental use of stale
cannam@140 37 cache files.
cannam@140 38
cannam@140 39 If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
cannam@140 40 to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
cannam@140 41 diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
cannam@140 42 be considered for the next release. If you are using the cache, and at
cannam@140 43 some point `config.cache' contains results you don't want to keep, you
cannam@140 44 may remove or edit it.
cannam@140 45
cannam@140 46 The file `configure.ac' (or `configure.in') is used to create
cannam@140 47 `configure' by a program called `autoconf'. You need `configure.ac' if
cannam@140 48 you want to change it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version
cannam@140 49 of `autoconf'.
cannam@140 50
cannam@140 51 The simplest way to compile this package is:
cannam@140 52
cannam@140 53 1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
cannam@140 54 `./configure' to configure the package for your system.
cannam@140 55
cannam@140 56 Running `configure' might take a while. While running, it prints
cannam@140 57 some messages telling which features it is checking for.
cannam@140 58
cannam@140 59 2. Type `make' to compile the package.
cannam@140 60
cannam@140 61 3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
cannam@140 62 the package, generally using the just-built uninstalled binaries.
cannam@140 63
cannam@140 64 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
cannam@140 65 documentation. When installing into a prefix owned by root, it is
cannam@140 66 recommended that the package be configured and built as a regular
cannam@140 67 user, and only the `make install' phase executed with root
cannam@140 68 privileges.
cannam@140 69
cannam@140 70 5. Optionally, type `make installcheck' to repeat any self-tests, but
cannam@140 71 this time using the binaries in their final installed location.
cannam@140 72 This target does not install anything. Running this target as a
cannam@140 73 regular user, particularly if the prior `make install' required
cannam@140 74 root privileges, verifies that the installation completed
cannam@140 75 correctly.
cannam@140 76
cannam@140 77 6. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
cannam@140 78 source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
cannam@140 79 files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
cannam@140 80 a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is
cannam@140 81 also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
cannam@140 82 for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get
cannam@140 83 all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
cannam@140 84 with the distribution.
cannam@140 85
cannam@140 86 7. Often, you can also type `make uninstall' to remove the installed
cannam@140 87 files again. In practice, not all packages have tested that
cannam@140 88 uninstallation works correctly, even though it is required by the
cannam@140 89 GNU Coding Standards.
cannam@140 90
cannam@140 91 8. Some packages, particularly those that use Automake, provide `make
cannam@140 92 distcheck', which can by used by developers to test that all other
cannam@140 93 targets like `make install' and `make uninstall' work correctly.
cannam@140 94 This target is generally not run by end users.
cannam@140 95
cannam@140 96 Compilers and Options
cannam@140 97 =====================
cannam@140 98
cannam@140 99 Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
cannam@140 100 the `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help'
cannam@140 101 for details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
cannam@140 102
cannam@140 103 You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters
cannam@140 104 by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here
cannam@140 105 is an example:
cannam@140 106
cannam@140 107 ./configure CC=c99 CFLAGS=-g LIBS=-lposix
cannam@140 108
cannam@140 109 *Note Defining Variables::, for more details.
cannam@140 110
cannam@140 111 Compiling For Multiple Architectures
cannam@140 112 ====================================
cannam@140 113
cannam@140 114 You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
cannam@140 115 same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
cannam@140 116 own directory. To do this, you can use GNU `make'. `cd' to the
cannam@140 117 directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
cannam@140 118 the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the
cannam@140 119 source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'. This
cannam@140 120 is known as a "VPATH" build.
cannam@140 121
cannam@140 122 With a non-GNU `make', it is safer to compile the package for one
cannam@140 123 architecture at a time in the source code directory. After you have
cannam@140 124 installed the package for one architecture, use `make distclean' before
cannam@140 125 reconfiguring for another architecture.
cannam@140 126
cannam@140 127 On MacOS X 10.5 and later systems, you can create libraries and
cannam@140 128 executables that work on multiple system types--known as "fat" or
cannam@140 129 "universal" binaries--by specifying multiple `-arch' options to the
cannam@140 130 compiler but only a single `-arch' option to the preprocessor. Like
cannam@140 131 this:
cannam@140 132
cannam@140 133 ./configure CC="gcc -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64" \
cannam@140 134 CXX="g++ -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64" \
cannam@140 135 CPP="gcc -E" CXXCPP="g++ -E"
cannam@140 136
cannam@140 137 This is not guaranteed to produce working output in all cases, you
cannam@140 138 may have to build one architecture at a time and combine the results
cannam@140 139 using the `lipo' tool if you have problems.
cannam@140 140
cannam@140 141 Installation Names
cannam@140 142 ==================
cannam@140 143
cannam@140 144 By default, `make install' installs the package's commands under
cannam@140 145 `/usr/local/bin', include files under `/usr/local/include', etc. You
cannam@140 146 can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving
cannam@140 147 `configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX', where PREFIX must be an
cannam@140 148 absolute file name.
cannam@140 149
cannam@140 150 You can specify separate installation prefixes for
cannam@140 151 architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
cannam@140 152 pass the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX' to `configure', the package uses
cannam@140 153 PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
cannam@140 154 Documentation and other data files still use the regular prefix.
cannam@140 155
cannam@140 156 In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
cannam@140 157 options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular
cannam@140 158 kinds of files. Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
cannam@140 159 you can set and what kinds of files go in them. In general, the
cannam@140 160 default for these options is expressed in terms of `${prefix}', so that
cannam@140 161 specifying just `--prefix' will affect all of the other directory
cannam@140 162 specifications that were not explicitly provided.
cannam@140 163
cannam@140 164 The most portable way to affect installation locations is to pass the
cannam@140 165 correct locations to `configure'; however, many packages provide one or
cannam@140 166 both of the following shortcuts of passing variable assignments to the
cannam@140 167 `make install' command line to change installation locations without
cannam@140 168 having to reconfigure or recompile.
cannam@140 169
cannam@140 170 The first method involves providing an override variable for each
cannam@140 171 affected directory. For example, `make install
cannam@140 172 prefix=/alternate/directory' will choose an alternate location for all
cannam@140 173 directory configuration variables that were expressed in terms of
cannam@140 174 `${prefix}'. Any directories that were specified during `configure',
cannam@140 175 but not in terms of `${prefix}', must each be overridden at install
cannam@140 176 time for the entire installation to be relocated. The approach of
cannam@140 177 makefile variable overrides for each directory variable is required by
cannam@140 178 the GNU Coding Standards, and ideally causes no recompilation.
cannam@140 179 However, some platforms have known limitations with the semantics of
cannam@140 180 shared libraries that end up requiring recompilation when using this
cannam@140 181 method, particularly noticeable in packages that use GNU Libtool.
cannam@140 182
cannam@140 183 The second method involves providing the `DESTDIR' variable. For
cannam@140 184 example, `make install DESTDIR=/alternate/directory' will prepend
cannam@140 185 `/alternate/directory' before all installation names. The approach of
cannam@140 186 `DESTDIR' overrides is not required by the GNU Coding Standards, and
cannam@140 187 does not work on platforms that have drive letters. On the other hand,
cannam@140 188 it does better at avoiding recompilation issues, and works well even
cannam@140 189 when some directory options were not specified in terms of `${prefix}'
cannam@140 190 at `configure' time.
cannam@140 191
cannam@140 192 Optional Features
cannam@140 193 =================
cannam@140 194
cannam@140 195 If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
cannam@140 196 with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the
cannam@140 197 option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
cannam@140 198
cannam@140 199 Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
cannam@140 200 `configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
cannam@140 201 They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
cannam@140 202 is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System). The
cannam@140 203 `README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the
cannam@140 204 package recognizes.
cannam@140 205
cannam@140 206 For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually
cannam@140 207 find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't,
cannam@140 208 you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and
cannam@140 209 `--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations.
cannam@140 210
cannam@140 211 Some packages offer the ability to configure how verbose the
cannam@140 212 execution of `make' will be. For these packages, running `./configure
cannam@140 213 --enable-silent-rules' sets the default to minimal output, which can be
cannam@140 214 overridden with `make V=1'; while running `./configure
cannam@140 215 --disable-silent-rules' sets the default to verbose, which can be
cannam@140 216 overridden with `make V=0'.
cannam@140 217
cannam@140 218 Particular systems
cannam@140 219 ==================
cannam@140 220
cannam@140 221 On HP-UX, the default C compiler is not ANSI C compatible. If GNU
cannam@140 222 CC is not installed, it is recommended to use the following options in
cannam@140 223 order to use an ANSI C compiler:
cannam@140 224
cannam@140 225 ./configure CC="cc -Ae -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500"
cannam@140 226
cannam@140 227 and if that doesn't work, install pre-built binaries of GCC for HP-UX.
cannam@140 228
cannam@140 229 HP-UX `make' updates targets which have the same time stamps as
cannam@140 230 their prerequisites, which makes it generally unusable when shipped
cannam@140 231 generated files such as `configure' are involved. Use GNU `make'
cannam@140 232 instead.
cannam@140 233
cannam@140 234 On OSF/1 a.k.a. Tru64, some versions of the default C compiler cannot
cannam@140 235 parse its `<wchar.h>' header file. The option `-nodtk' can be used as
cannam@140 236 a workaround. If GNU CC is not installed, it is therefore recommended
cannam@140 237 to try
cannam@140 238
cannam@140 239 ./configure CC="cc"
cannam@140 240
cannam@140 241 and if that doesn't work, try
cannam@140 242
cannam@140 243 ./configure CC="cc -nodtk"
cannam@140 244
cannam@140 245 On Solaris, don't put `/usr/ucb' early in your `PATH'. This
cannam@140 246 directory contains several dysfunctional programs; working variants of
cannam@140 247 these programs are available in `/usr/bin'. So, if you need `/usr/ucb'
cannam@140 248 in your `PATH', put it _after_ `/usr/bin'.
cannam@140 249
cannam@140 250 On Haiku, software installed for all users goes in `/boot/common',
cannam@140 251 not `/usr/local'. It is recommended to use the following options:
cannam@140 252
cannam@140 253 ./configure --prefix=/boot/common
cannam@140 254
cannam@140 255 Specifying the System Type
cannam@140 256 ==========================
cannam@140 257
cannam@140 258 There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out
cannam@140 259 automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package
cannam@140 260 will run on. Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the
cannam@140 261 _same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
cannam@140 262 a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the
cannam@140 263 `--build=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system
cannam@140 264 type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form:
cannam@140 265
cannam@140 266 CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM
cannam@140 267
cannam@140 268 where SYSTEM can have one of these forms:
cannam@140 269
cannam@140 270 OS
cannam@140 271 KERNEL-OS
cannam@140 272
cannam@140 273 See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If
cannam@140 274 `config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
cannam@140 275 need to know the machine type.
cannam@140 276
cannam@140 277 If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should
cannam@140 278 use the option `--target=TYPE' to select the type of system they will
cannam@140 279 produce code for.
cannam@140 280
cannam@140 281 If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a
cannam@140 282 platform different from the build platform, you should specify the
cannam@140 283 "host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will
cannam@140 284 eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'.
cannam@140 285
cannam@140 286 Sharing Defaults
cannam@140 287 ================
cannam@140 288
cannam@140 289 If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
cannam@140 290 you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
cannam@140 291 default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
cannam@140 292 `configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
cannam@140 293 `PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the
cannam@140 294 `CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
cannam@140 295 A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.
cannam@140 296
cannam@140 297 Defining Variables
cannam@140 298 ==================
cannam@140 299
cannam@140 300 Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
cannam@140 301 environment passed to `configure'. However, some packages may run
cannam@140 302 configure again during the build, and the customized values of these
cannam@140 303 variables may be lost. In order to avoid this problem, you should set
cannam@140 304 them in the `configure' command line, using `VAR=value'. For example:
cannam@140 305
cannam@140 306 ./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc
cannam@140 307
cannam@140 308 causes the specified `gcc' to be used as the C compiler (unless it is
cannam@140 309 overridden in the site shell script).
cannam@140 310
cannam@140 311 Unfortunately, this technique does not work for `CONFIG_SHELL' due to
cannam@140 312 an Autoconf limitation. Until the limitation is lifted, you can use
cannam@140 313 this workaround:
cannam@140 314
cannam@140 315 CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
cannam@140 316
cannam@140 317 `configure' Invocation
cannam@140 318 ======================
cannam@140 319
cannam@140 320 `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
cannam@140 321 operates.
cannam@140 322
cannam@140 323 `--help'
cannam@140 324 `-h'
cannam@140 325 Print a summary of all of the options to `configure', and exit.
cannam@140 326
cannam@140 327 `--help=short'
cannam@140 328 `--help=recursive'
cannam@140 329 Print a summary of the options unique to this package's
cannam@140 330 `configure', and exit. The `short' variant lists options used
cannam@140 331 only in the top level, while the `recursive' variant lists options
cannam@140 332 also present in any nested packages.
cannam@140 333
cannam@140 334 `--version'
cannam@140 335 `-V'
cannam@140 336 Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
cannam@140 337 script, and exit.
cannam@140 338
cannam@140 339 `--cache-file=FILE'
cannam@140 340 Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE,
cannam@140 341 traditionally `config.cache'. FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to
cannam@140 342 disable caching.
cannam@140 343
cannam@140 344 `--config-cache'
cannam@140 345 `-C'
cannam@140 346 Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'.
cannam@140 347
cannam@140 348 `--quiet'
cannam@140 349 `--silent'
cannam@140 350 `-q'
cannam@140 351 Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. To
cannam@140 352 suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
cannam@140 353 messages will still be shown).
cannam@140 354
cannam@140 355 `--srcdir=DIR'
cannam@140 356 Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
cannam@140 357 `configure' can determine that directory automatically.
cannam@140 358
cannam@140 359 `--prefix=DIR'
cannam@140 360 Use DIR as the installation prefix. *note Installation Names::
cannam@140 361 for more details, including other options available for fine-tuning
cannam@140 362 the installation locations.
cannam@140 363
cannam@140 364 `--no-create'
cannam@140 365 `-n'
cannam@140 366 Run the configure checks, but stop before creating any output
cannam@140 367 files.
cannam@140 368
cannam@140 369 `configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. Run
cannam@140 370 `configure --help' for more details.