On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:04:59AM -0700, stuporglue wrote: > I've been installing quite a few things from source (or at least > trying to) on my Mac as I try to build the dependencies for GRAMPS. > Every time I want to build of course, I run > > ./configure > make > make install > > The configures check many of the same things. Is there a convenient > way to set a variable somewhere saying what the max argument length > is, and if we're using the Fortran compiler, and a bunch of the other > thinks it checks for? It would greatly reduce the time I sit waiting!
I'm not really sure what you're asking, but most configure scripts respect environment variables like $CFLAGS and $CXXFLAGS, and maybe others. Justin ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
