autoconf: configure Invocation

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1 16.10 `configure' Invocation
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1 `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it operates.
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1 `--help'
1 `-h'
1      Print a summary of all of the options to `configure', and exit.
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1 `--help=short'
1 `--help=recursive'
1      Print a summary of the options unique to this package's
1      `configure', and exit.  The `short' variant lists options used
1      only in the top level, while the `recursive' variant lists options
1      also present in any nested packages.
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1 `--version'
1 `-V'
1      Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
1      script, and exit.
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1 `--cache-file=FILE'
1      Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE,
1      traditionally `config.cache'.  FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to
1      disable caching.
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1 `--config-cache'
1 `-C'
1      Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'.
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1 `--quiet'
1 `--silent'
1 `-q'
1      Do not print messages saying which checks are being made.  To
1      suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
1      messages will still be shown).
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1 `--srcdir=DIR'
1      Look for the package's source code in directory DIR.  Usually
1      `configure' can determine that directory automatically.
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1 `--prefix=DIR'
1      Use DIR as the installation prefix.  ⇒Installation Names
1      for more details, including other options available for fine-tuning
1      the installation locations.
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1 `--no-create'
1 `-n'
1      Run the configure checks, but stop before creating any output
1      files.
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1 `configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options.  Run
1 `configure --help' for more details.
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