Top "Configure" questions

A Configure script is an executable script designed to aid in developing a program to be run on a wide number of different computers.

What is config.log on osx and where does it live?

Can anyone explain what 'configure' is and does, where the config.log file can be found in general? This is …

xcode macos gcc configure
configure needs C++14 support but gcc -v = 4.9.3

I am currently in the process of compiling graph-tool v1.13 from the Git version. I have managed to generate the …

gcc g++ c++14 configure graph-tool
Android valgrind build fails

Hello I'm trying to build valgrind for android-arm. On Linux Mint 13 it fails with: $ make echo "# This is a generated …

android macos android-ndk valgrind configure
configure: error: leptonica library missing (when building tesseract-ocr-3.01 on MinGW)

When running configure it fails with checking for leptonica... yes checking for pixCreate in -llept... no configure: error: leptonica library …

compilation mingw configure tesseract
Recommended flags for a minimalistic Qt build

I am trying to build Qt because it is required for Visual Studio 2010. The build script (configure.exe) is quite …

visual-studio-2010 qt build makefile configure
Force use gcc to compile (instead of cc) in ./configure under Solaris Sparc

I want to build fossil code on Solaris. wget http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/tarball/tip.tar.xz tar …

gcc solaris configure fossil
MagickWand ./configure can't find MagickWand-config

I've been trying unsuccessfully to install ImageMagick and am stuck at this point. I've dled and phpized MagickWand and am …

bash unix path configure
No C compiler on EC2?

I've been trying to install Gearman on my EC2 instance, but when I try to ./configure gearmand, I get this: …

linux gcc amazon-ec2 configure
make fails with error "cannot convert ‘std::istream {aka std::basic_istream<char>}’ to ‘bool’ in return"

I'm trying to compile libgtextutils (required by the fastxtoolkit) from source. The './configure' command runs nicely, however subsequent 'make' …

c++ macos c++11 makefile configure
Adding a custom installation directory option to Autoconf-generated configure scripts

configure scripts always include something like the following in the help message: ... By default, `make install' will install all the …

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