-This is a generic INSTALL file for utilities distributions.
-If this package does not come with, e.g., installable documentation or
-data files, please ignore the references to them below.
-
-To compile this package:
-
-1. Configure the package for your system. In the directory that this
-file is in, type `./configure'. If you're using `csh' on an old
-version of System V, you might need to type `sh configure' instead to
-prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself.
-
-The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
-various system-dependent variables used during compilation, and
-creates the Makefile(s) (one in each subdirectory of the source
-directory). In some packages it creates a C header file containing
-system-dependent definitions. It also creates a file `config.status'
-that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration.
-
-Running `configure' takes a minute or two. While it is running, it
-prints some messages that tell what it is doing. If you don't want to
-see the messages, run `configure' with its standard output redirected
-to `/dev/null'; for example, `./configure >/dev/null'.
-
-To compile the package in a different directory from the one
-containing the source code, you must use a version of `make' that
-supports the VPATH variable, such as GNU `make'. `cd' to the directory
-where you want the object files and executables to go and run
-`configure'. `configure' automatically checks for the source code in
-the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'. If for some reason
-`configure' is not in the source code directory that you are
-configuring, then it will report that it can't find the source code.
-In that case, run `configure' with the option `--srcdir=DIR', where
-DIR is the directory that contains the source code.
-
-By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
-/usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/man, etc. You can specify
-an installation prefix other than /usr/local by giving `configure' the
-option `--prefix=PATH'. Alternately, you can do so by giving a value
-for the `prefix' variable when you run `make', e.g.,
- make prefix=/usr/gnu
-
-You can specify separate installation prefixes for
-architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If
-you give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH' or set the
-`make' variable `exec_prefix' to PATH, the package will use PATH as
-the prefix for installing programs and libraries. Data files and
-documentation will still use the regular prefix. Normally, all files
-are installed using the regular prefix.
-
-Another `configure' option is useful mainly in `Makefile' rules for
-updating `config.status' and `Makefile'. The `--no-create' option
-figures out the configuration for your system and records it in
-`config.status', without actually configuring the package (creating
-`Makefile's and perhaps a configuration header file). Later, you can
-run `./config.status' to actually configure the package. You can also
-give `config.status' the `--recheck' option, which makes it re-run
-`configure' with the same arguments you used before. This option is
-useful if you change `configure'.
-
-Some packages pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options to `configure',
-where PACKAGE is something like `gnu-libc' or `x' (for the X Window System).
-The README should mention any --with- options that the package recognizes.
-
-`configure' ignores any other arguments that you give it.
-
-If your system requires unusual options for compilation or linking
-that `configure' doesn't know about, you can give `configure' initial
-values for some variables by setting them in the environment. In
-Bourne-compatible shells, you can do that on the command line like
+Basic Installation
+==================
+
+ These are generic installation instructions.
+
+ The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
+various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses
+those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
+It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent
+definitions. Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that
+you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file
+`config.cache' that saves the results of its tests to speed up
+reconfiguring, and a file `config.log' containing compiler output
+(useful mainly for debugging `configure').
+
+ If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
+to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
+diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
+be considered for the next release. If at some point `config.cache'
+contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it.
+
+ The file `configure.in' is used to create `configure' by a program
+called `autoconf'. You only need `configure.in' if you want to change
+it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.
+
+The simplest way to compile this package is:
+
+ 1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
+ `./configure' to configure the package for your system. If you're
+ using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type
+ `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute
+ `configure' itself.
+
+ Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some
+ messages telling which features it is checking for.
+
+ 2. Type `make' to compile the package.
+
+ 3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
+ the package.
+
+ 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
+ documentation.
+
+ 5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
+ source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
+ files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
+ a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is
+ also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
+ for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get
+ all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
+ with the distribution.
+
+Compilers and Options
+=====================
+
+ Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
+the `configure' script does not know about. You can give `configure'
+initial values for variables by setting them in the environment. Using
+a Bourne-compatible shell, you can do that on the command line like
this:
- CC='gcc -traditional' DEFS=-D_POSIX_SOURCE ./configure
-
-The `make' variables that you might want to override with environment
-variables when running `configure' are:
-
-(For these variables, any value given in the environment overrides the
-value that `configure' would choose:)
-CC C compiler program.
- Default is `cc', or `gcc' if `gcc' is in your PATH.
-INSTALL Program to use to install files.
- Default is `install' if you have it, `cp' otherwise.
-
-(For these variables, any value given in the environment is added to
-the value that `configure' chooses:)
-DEFS Configuration options, in the form `-Dfoo -Dbar ...'
- Do not use this variable in packages that create a
- configuration header file.
-LIBS Libraries to link with, in the form `-lfoo -lbar ...'
-
-If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, we encourage
-you to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and
-mail diffs or instructions to the address given in the README so we
-can include them in the next release.
-
-2. Type `make' to compile the package. If you want, you can override
-the `make' variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS like this:
-
- make CFLAGS=-O2 LDFLAGS=-s
-
-3. If the package comes with self-tests and you want to run them,
-type `make check'. If you're not sure whether there are any, try it;
-if `make' responds with something like
- make: *** No way to make target `check'. Stop.
-then the package does not come with self-tests.
-
-4. Type `make install' to install programs, data files, and
-documentation.
-
-5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
-source directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
-Makefile(s), the header file containing system-dependent definitions
-(if the package uses one), and `config.status' (all the files that
-`configure' created), type `make distclean'.
-
-The file `configure.in' is used as a template to create `configure' by
-a program called `autoconf'. You will only need it if you want to
-regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.
+ CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure
+
+Or on systems that have the `env' program, you can do it like this:
+ env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure
+
+Compiling For Multiple Architectures
+====================================
+
+ You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
+same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
+own directory. To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
+supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. `cd' to the
+directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
+the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the
+source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
+
+ If you have to use a `make' that does not supports the `VPATH'
+variable, you have to compile the package for one architecture at a time
+in the source code directory. After you have installed the package for
+one architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring for another
+architecture.
+
+Installation Names
+==================
+
+ By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
+`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an
+installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
+option `--prefix=PATH'.
+
+ You can specify separate installation prefixes for
+architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
+give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH', the package will use
+PATH as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
+Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.
+
+ If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
+with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the
+option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
+
+Optional Features
+=================
+
+ Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
+`configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
+They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
+is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System). The
+`README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the
+package recognizes.
+
+ For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually
+find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't,
+you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and
+`--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations.
+
+Specifying the System Type
+==========================
+
+ There may be some features `configure' can not figure out
+automatically, but needs to determine by the type of host the package
+will run on. Usually `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
+a message saying it can not guess the host type, give it the
+`--host=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system
+type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name with three fields:
+ CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM
+
+See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If
+`config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
+need to know the host type.
+
+ If you are building compiler tools for cross-compiling, you can also
+use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
+produce code for and the `--build=TYPE' option to select the type of
+system on which you are compiling the package.
+
+Sharing Defaults
+================
+
+ If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
+you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
+default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
+`configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
+`PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the
+`CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
+A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.
+
+Operation Controls
+==================
+
+ `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
+operates.
+
+`--cache-file=FILE'
+ Use and save the results of the tests in FILE instead of
+ `./config.cache'. Set FILE to `/dev/null' to disable caching, for
+ debugging `configure'.
+
+`--help'
+ Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.
+
+`--quiet'
+`--silent'
+`-q'
+ Do not print messages saying which checks are being made.
+
+`--srcdir=DIR'
+ Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
+ `configure' can determine that directory automatically.
+
+`--version'
+ Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
+ script, and exit.
+
+`configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options.
+
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