| 1 | Installation Instructions |
| 2 | ************************* |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, |
| 5 | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, |
| 8 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright |
| 9 | notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is, |
| 10 | without warranty of any kind. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Basic Installation |
| 13 | ================== |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should |
| 16 | configure, build, and install this package. The following |
| 17 | more-detailed instructions are generic; see the `README.md' file for |
| 18 | instructions specific to this package. Some packages provide this |
| 19 | `INSTALL' file but do not implement all of the features documented |
| 20 | below. The lack of an optional feature in a given package is not |
| 21 | necessarily a bug. More recommendations for GNU packages can be found |
| 22 | in *note Makefile Conventions: (standards)Makefile Conventions. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for |
| 25 | various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses |
| 26 | those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package. |
| 27 | It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent |
| 28 | definitions. Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that |
| 29 | you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, and a |
| 30 | file `config.log' containing compiler output (useful mainly for |
| 31 | debugging `configure'). |
| 32 | |
| 33 | It can also use an optional file (typically called `config.cache' |
| 34 | and enabled with `--cache-file=config.cache' or simply `-C') that saves |
| 35 | the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring. Caching is |
| 36 | disabled by default to prevent problems with accidental use of stale |
| 37 | cache files. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try |
| 40 | to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail |
| 41 | diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README.md' so they can |
| 42 | be considered for the next release. If you are using the cache, and at |
| 43 | some point `config.cache' contains results you don't want to keep, you |
| 44 | may remove or edit it. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | The file `configure.ac' (or `configure.in') is used to create |
| 47 | `configure' by a program called `autoconf'. You need `configure.ac' if |
| 48 | you want to change it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version |
| 49 | of `autoconf'. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | The simplest way to compile this package is: |
| 52 | |
| 53 | 1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type |
| 54 | `./configure' to configure the package for your system. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | Running `configure' might take a while. While running, it prints |
| 57 | some messages telling which features it is checking for. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | 2. Type `make' to compile the package. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | 3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with |
| 62 | the package, generally using the just-built uninstalled binaries. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and |
| 65 | documentation. When installing into a prefix owned by root, it is |
| 66 | recommended that the package be configured and built as a regular |
| 67 | user, and only the `make install' phase executed with root |
| 68 | privileges. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | 5. Optionally, type `make installcheck' to repeat any self-tests, but |
| 71 | this time using the binaries in their final installed location. |
| 72 | This target does not install anything. Running this target as a |
| 73 | regular user, particularly if the prior `make install' required |
| 74 | root privileges, verifies that the installation completed |
| 75 | correctly. |
| 76 | |
| 77 | 6. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the |
| 78 | source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the |
| 79 | files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for |
| 80 | a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is |
| 81 | also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly |
| 82 | for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get |
| 83 | all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came |
| 84 | with the distribution. |
| 85 | |
| 86 | 7. Often, you can also type `make uninstall' to remove the installed |
| 87 | files again. In practice, not all packages have tested that |
| 88 | uninstallation works correctly, even though it is required by the |
| 89 | GNU Coding Standards. |
| 90 | |
| 91 | 8. Some packages, particularly those that use Automake, provide `make |
| 92 | distcheck', which can by used by developers to test that all other |
| 93 | targets like `make install' and `make uninstall' work correctly. |
| 94 | This target is generally not run by end users. |
| 95 | |
| 96 | Compilers and Options |
| 97 | ===================== |
| 98 | |
| 99 | Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that |
| 100 | the `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help' |
| 101 | for details on some of the pertinent environment variables. |
| 102 | |
| 103 | You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters |
| 104 | by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here |
| 105 | is an example: |
| 106 | |
| 107 | ./configure CC=c99 CFLAGS=-g LIBS=-lposix |
| 108 | |
| 109 | *Note Defining Variables::, for more details. |
| 110 | |
| 111 | Compiling For Multiple Architectures |
| 112 | ==================================== |
| 113 | |
| 114 | You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the |
| 115 | same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their |
| 116 | own directory. To do this, you can use GNU `make'. `cd' to the |
| 117 | directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run |
| 118 | the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the |
| 119 | source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'. This |
| 120 | is known as a "VPATH" build. |
| 121 | |
| 122 | With a non-GNU `make', it is safer to compile the package for one |
| 123 | architecture at a time in the source code directory. After you have |
| 124 | installed the package for one architecture, use `make distclean' before |
| 125 | reconfiguring for another architecture. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | On MacOS X 10.5 and later systems, you can create libraries and |
| 128 | executables that work on multiple system types--known as "fat" or |
| 129 | "universal" binaries--by specifying multiple `-arch' options to the |
| 130 | compiler but only a single `-arch' option to the preprocessor. Like |
| 131 | this: |
| 132 | |
| 133 | ./configure CC="gcc -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64" \ |
| 134 | CXX="g++ -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64" \ |
| 135 | CPP="gcc -E" CXXCPP="g++ -E" |
| 136 | |
| 137 | This is not guaranteed to produce working output in all cases, you |
| 138 | may have to build one architecture at a time and combine the results |
| 139 | using the `lipo' tool if you have problems. |
| 140 | |
| 141 | Installation Names |
| 142 | ================== |
| 143 | |
| 144 | By default, `make install' installs the package's commands under |
| 145 | `/usr/local/bin', include files under `/usr/local/include', etc. You |
| 146 | can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving |
| 147 | `configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX', where PREFIX must be an |
| 148 | absolute file name. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | You can specify separate installation prefixes for |
| 151 | architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you |
| 152 | pass the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX' to `configure', the package uses |
| 153 | PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries. |
| 154 | Documentation and other data files still use the regular prefix. |
| 155 | |
| 156 | In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give |
| 157 | options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular |
| 158 | kinds of files. Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories |
| 159 | you can set and what kinds of files go in them. In general, the |
| 160 | default for these options is expressed in terms of `${prefix}', so that |
| 161 | specifying just `--prefix' will affect all of the other directory |
| 162 | specifications that were not explicitly provided. |
| 163 | |
| 164 | The most portable way to affect installation locations is to pass the |
| 165 | correct locations to `configure'; however, many packages provide one or |
| 166 | both of the following shortcuts of passing variable assignments to the |
| 167 | `make install' command line to change installation locations without |
| 168 | having to reconfigure or recompile. |
| 169 | |
| 170 | The first method involves providing an override variable for each |
| 171 | affected directory. For example, `make install |
| 172 | prefix=/alternate/directory' will choose an alternate location for all |
| 173 | directory configuration variables that were expressed in terms of |
| 174 | `${prefix}'. Any directories that were specified during `configure', |
| 175 | but not in terms of `${prefix}', must each be overridden at install |
| 176 | time for the entire installation to be relocated. The approach of |
| 177 | makefile variable overrides for each directory variable is required by |
| 178 | the GNU Coding Standards, and ideally causes no recompilation. |
| 179 | However, some platforms have known limitations with the semantics of |
| 180 | shared libraries that end up requiring recompilation when using this |
| 181 | method, particularly noticeable in packages that use GNU Libtool. |
| 182 | |
| 183 | The second method involves providing the `DESTDIR' variable. For |
| 184 | example, `make install DESTDIR=/alternate/directory' will prepend |
| 185 | `/alternate/directory' before all installation names. The approach of |
| 186 | `DESTDIR' overrides is not required by the GNU Coding Standards, and |
| 187 | does not work on platforms that have drive letters. On the other hand, |
| 188 | it does better at avoiding recompilation issues, and works well even |
| 189 | when some directory options were not specified in terms of `${prefix}' |
| 190 | at `configure' time. |
| 191 | |
| 192 | Optional Features |
| 193 | ================= |
| 194 | |
| 195 | If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed |
| 196 | with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the |
| 197 | option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'. |
| 198 | |
| 199 | Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to |
| 200 | `configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package. |
| 201 | They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE |
| 202 | is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System). The |
| 203 | `README.md' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that |
| 204 | the package recognizes. |
| 205 | |
| 206 | For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually |
| 207 | find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't, |
| 208 | you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and |
| 209 | `--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations. |
| 210 | |
| 211 | Some packages offer the ability to configure how verbose the |
| 212 | execution of `make' will be. For these packages, running `./configure |
| 213 | --enable-silent-rules' sets the default to minimal output, which can be |
| 214 | overridden with `make V=1'; while running `./configure |
| 215 | --disable-silent-rules' sets the default to verbose, which can be |
| 216 | overridden with `make V=0'. |
| 217 | |
| 218 | Particular systems |
| 219 | ================== |
| 220 | |
| 221 | On HP-UX, the default C compiler is not ANSI C compatible. If GNU |
| 222 | CC is not installed, it is recommended to use the following options in |
| 223 | order to use an ANSI C compiler: |
| 224 | |
| 225 | ./configure CC="cc -Ae -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500" |
| 226 | |
| 227 | and if that doesn't work, install pre-built binaries of GCC for HP-UX. |
| 228 | |
| 229 | On OSF/1 a.k.a. Tru64, some versions of the default C compiler cannot |
| 230 | parse its `<wchar.h>' header file. The option `-nodtk' can be used as |
| 231 | a workaround. If GNU CC is not installed, it is therefore recommended |
| 232 | to try |
| 233 | |
| 234 | ./configure CC="cc" |
| 235 | |
| 236 | and if that doesn't work, try |
| 237 | |
| 238 | ./configure CC="cc -nodtk" |
| 239 | |
| 240 | On Solaris, don't put `/usr/ucb' early in your `PATH'. This |
| 241 | directory contains several dysfunctional programs; working variants of |
| 242 | these programs are available in `/usr/bin'. So, if you need `/usr/ucb' |
| 243 | in your `PATH', put it _after_ `/usr/bin'. |
| 244 | |
| 245 | On Haiku, software installed for all users goes in `/boot/common', |
| 246 | not `/usr/local'. It is recommended to use the following options: |
| 247 | |
| 248 | ./configure --prefix=/boot/common |
| 249 | |
| 250 | Specifying the System Type |
| 251 | ========================== |
| 252 | |
| 253 | There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out |
| 254 | automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package |
| 255 | will run on. Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the |
| 256 | _same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints |
| 257 | a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the |
| 258 | `--build=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system |
| 259 | type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form: |
| 260 | |
| 261 | CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM |
| 262 | |
| 263 | where SYSTEM can have one of these forms: |
| 264 | |
| 265 | OS |
| 266 | KERNEL-OS |
| 267 | |
| 268 | See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If |
| 269 | `config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't |
| 270 | need to know the machine type. |
| 271 | |
| 272 | If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should |
| 273 | use the option `--target=TYPE' to select the type of system they will |
| 274 | produce code for. |
| 275 | |
| 276 | If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a |
| 277 | platform different from the build platform, you should specify the |
| 278 | "host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will |
| 279 | eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'. |
| 280 | |
| 281 | Sharing Defaults |
| 282 | ================ |
| 283 | |
| 284 | If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share, |
| 285 | you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives |
| 286 | default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'. |
| 287 | `configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then |
| 288 | `PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the |
| 289 | `CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script. |
| 290 | A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script. |
| 291 | |
| 292 | Defining Variables |
| 293 | ================== |
| 294 | |
| 295 | Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the |
| 296 | environment passed to `configure'. However, some packages may run |
| 297 | configure again during the build, and the customized values of these |
| 298 | variables may be lost. In order to avoid this problem, you should set |
| 299 | them in the `configure' command line, using `VAR=value'. For example: |
| 300 | |
| 301 | ./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc |
| 302 | |
| 303 | causes the specified `gcc' to be used as the C compiler (unless it is |
| 304 | overridden in the site shell script). |
| 305 | |
| 306 | Unfortunately, this technique does not work for `CONFIG_SHELL' due to |
| 307 | an Autoconf bug. Until the bug is fixed you can use this workaround: |
| 308 | |
| 309 | CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash |
| 310 | |
| 311 | `configure' Invocation |
| 312 | ====================== |
| 313 | |
| 314 | `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it |
| 315 | operates. |
| 316 | |
| 317 | `--help' |
| 318 | `-h' |
| 319 | Print a summary of all of the options to `configure', and exit. |
| 320 | |
| 321 | `--help=short' |
| 322 | `--help=recursive' |
| 323 | Print a summary of the options unique to this package's |
| 324 | `configure', and exit. The `short' variant lists options used |
| 325 | only in the top level, while the `recursive' variant lists options |
| 326 | also present in any nested packages. |
| 327 | |
| 328 | `--version' |
| 329 | `-V' |
| 330 | Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure' |
| 331 | script, and exit. |
| 332 | |
| 333 | `--cache-file=FILE' |
| 334 | Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE, |
| 335 | traditionally `config.cache'. FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to |
| 336 | disable caching. |
| 337 | |
| 338 | `--config-cache' |
| 339 | `-C' |
| 340 | Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'. |
| 341 | |
| 342 | `--quiet' |
| 343 | `--silent' |
| 344 | `-q' |
| 345 | Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. To |
| 346 | suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error |
| 347 | messages will still be shown). |
| 348 | |
| 349 | `--srcdir=DIR' |
| 350 | Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually |
| 351 | `configure' can determine that directory automatically. |
| 352 | |
| 353 | `--prefix=DIR' |
| 354 | Use DIR as the installation prefix. *note Installation Names:: |
| 355 | for more details, including other options available for fine-tuning |
| 356 | the installation locations. |
| 357 | |
| 358 | `--no-create' |
| 359 | `-n' |
| 360 | Run the configure checks, but stop before creating any output |
| 361 | files. |
| 362 | |
| 363 | `configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. Run |
| 364 | `configure --help' for more details. |
| 365 | |