Questions tagged [autoconf]
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What does it mean when "aclocal cannot open VERSION"
Is this the correct forum? I am running ./bootstrap for a program called Qucs and it complains about VERSION Running aclocal... Running automake... Running autoconf... bootstrapping /home/lasse/...
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Why can't autoconf find `libtcmalloc`?
I'm trying to compile a complex numerical simulation software. After running autoconf and then ./configure ... (with some other flags), I see the following in the output: checking for malloc in -...
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How to put multiple -I, -L and -l flags in ./configure?
I am trying to build using ./configure. I have Three include directories -I/path1/include -I/path2/include -I/path3/include Two link directories -L/path1/lib -L/path2/lib Two -l flag options -...
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AX_CHECK_X86_FEATURES for CXXFLAGS
The autoconf AX_CHECK_X86_FEATURES will test for -mavx, -mavx2, etc and add it to CFLAGS. What is the right way to propagate it to CXXFLAGS too? Is it "clean" to always add CFLAGS to ...
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How do I install xorg-macros?
I'm trying to build xf86-input-libinput from source to apply a patch. When I follow the recipe given here at the step autoreconf -vif I get an error saying: configure.ac:41: error: must install xorg-...
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Why would one M1 machine need architecture-specific options for building from source and other M1 machines not?
I have tool version managers in the Ruby and react-native worlds that (underneath the layers of abstraction) end up building software like Ruby from source using a fairly mundane: ./configure ./make ./...
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Show libraries found by ./configure before building?
Is it possible to get autoconf based build systems to show the libraries it found and will link against, before building the software? As-is my current workflow is: $ cd tps-source-dir $ ./configure --...
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How can you change ./configure to use a specific binary over /usr/bin?
Running macOS Catalina 10.15.6. My question is more related to compilation with GNU tools, so it may be more suited for a different SE site — I'll be happy to close and ask somewhere else if that's ...
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How can I fix this automake and autoconf missing issue?
I am trying to install avro-keyboard on Kali Linux but I am getting this error message on folowing this step from the tutorials: root@al-ajal:~# apt-get install git ibus libibus-1.0-dev automake ...
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Kernel-based IPv6 SLAAC not working?
My ISP's DHCPv6 is broken. As a work around I figured I'd try IPv6 SLAAC since I do see router advertisements coming in on my WAN interface. I believe I've configured accept_ra, accept_ra_pinfo, and ...
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autoconf: continue after package check failure
In my configure.ac script, I have a basic check for X11: PKG_CHECK_MODULES(X11, x11 > 1.6.4, [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_X11)], []) If this fails, I still want to continue. I thought since I added a blank ...
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./configure checking whether vs checking if
./configure script outputs checking if and checking whether on execution how the two results are different for checking conditions?
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double square bracket in 'case' in 'configure.ac' i[[3456]]86
I am trying to understand the following code snippet. host_cpu='i386' case "$host_cpu" in i[[3456]]86) echo "host_cpu=i386" ;; x86_64) echo "host_cpu=x86_64" ;; *) ...
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Why has there been so little innovation with autoconf configure scripts in the Unix and Linux ecosystem? [closed]
A great deal of time is lost at the time of ./configure; especially when dependencies are missing and the subsequent calling thereof. I've read many topics on this subject citing that caching the ...
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How to make autoconf use "install" instead of "mkdir -p"?
When I run sudo make install on a compiled package from the GNU archive, it uses mkdir -p to create the destination directories. I'd prefer it to use mkdir -p -m 0755 or install -d -m 0755 instead in ...
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