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This is a generic INSTALL file for utilities distributions.
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If this package does not come with, e.g., installable documentation or
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data files, please ignore the references to them below.
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[For information specific to Scheme 48, see doc/install.txt.]
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The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
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various system-dependent variables used during compilation, and
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creates the Makefile(s) (one in each subdirectory of the source
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directory). In some packages it creates a C header file containing
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system-dependent definitions. It also creates a file `config.status'
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that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration.
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To compile this package:
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1. Configure the package for your system.
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Normally, you just `cd' to the directory containing the package's
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source code and type `./configure'. If you're using `csh' on an old
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version of System V, you might need to type `sh configure' instead to
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prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself.
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Running `configure' takes a minute or two. While it is running, it
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prints some messages that tell what it is doing. If you don't want to
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see the messages, run `configure' with its standard output redirected
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to `/dev/null'; for example, `./configure >/dev/null'.
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To compile the package in a different directory from the one
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containing the source code, you must use a version of `make' that
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supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. `cd' to the
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directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
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the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the
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source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'. If
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for some reason `configure' is not in the source code directory that
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you are configuring, then it will report that it can't find the source
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code. In that case, run `configure' with the option `--srcdir=DIR',
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where DIR is the directory that contains the source code.
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By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
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`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an
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installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
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option `--prefix=PATH'. Alternately, you can do so by consistently
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giving a value for the `prefix' variable when you run `make', e.g.,
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make prefix=/usr/gnu
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make prefix=/usr/gnu install
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You can specify separate installation prefixes for
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architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
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give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH' or set the `make'
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variable `exec_prefix' to PATH, the package will use PATH as the prefix
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for installing programs and libraries. Data files and documentation
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will still use the regular prefix. Normally, all files are installed
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using the same prefix.
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Some packages pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options to
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`configure', where PACKAGE is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X
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Window System). The README should mention any `--with-' options that
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the package recognizes.
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`configure' ignores any other arguments that you give it.
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On systems that require unusual options for compilation or linking
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that the package's `configure' script does not know about, you can give
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`configure' initial values for variables by setting them in the
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environment. In Bourne-compatible shells, you can do that on the
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command line like this:
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CC='gcc -traditional' LIBS=-lposix ./configure
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Here are the `make' variables that you might want to override with
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environment variables when running `configure'.
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For these variables, any value given in the environment overrides the
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value that `configure' would choose:
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- Variable: CC
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C compiler program. The default is `cc'.
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- Variable: INSTALL
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Program to use to install files. The default is `install' if you
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have it, `cp' otherwise.
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For these variables, any value given in the environment is added to
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the value that `configure' chooses:
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- Variable: DEFS
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Configuration options, in the form `-Dfoo -Dbar...'. Do not use
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this variable in packages that create a configuration header file.
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- Variable: LIBS
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Libraries to link with, in the form `-lfoo -lbar...'.
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If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, we encourage
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you to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and
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mail diffs or instructions to the address given in the README so we
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can include them in the next release.
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2. Type `make' to compile the package. If you want, you can override
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the `make' variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS like this:
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make CFLAGS=-O2 LDFLAGS=-s
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3. If the package comes with self-tests and you want to run them,
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type `make check'. If you're not sure whether there are any, try it;
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if `make' responds with something like
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make: *** No way to make target `check'. Stop.
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then the package does not come with self-tests.
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4. Type `make install' to install programs, data files, and
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documentation.
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5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
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source directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
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Makefile(s), the header file containing system-dependent definitions
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(if the package uses one), and `config.status' (all the files that
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`configure' created), type `make distclean'.
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The file `configure.in' is used to create `configure' by a program
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called `autoconf'. You only need it if you want to regenerate
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`configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.
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