(autocf21.info.gz) Invoking config

(autocf21.info.gz) Invoking configure
 
 11 Recreating a Configuration
 *****************************
 
 The `configure' script creates a file named `config.status' which
 describes which configuration options were specified when the package
 was last configured.  This file is a shell script which, if run, will
 recreate the same configuration.
 
    You can give `config.status' the `--recheck' option to update
 itself.  This option is useful if you change `configure', so that the
 results of some tests might be different from the previous run.  The
 `--recheck' option re-runs `configure' with the same arguments you used
 before, plus the `--no-create' option, which prevent `configure' from
 running `config.status' and creating `Makefile' and other files, and
 the `--no-recursion' option, which prevents `configure' from running
 other `configure' scripts in subdirectories.  (This is so other
 `Makefile' rules can run `config.status' when it changes; 
 Automatic Remaking, for an example).
 
    `config.status' also accepts the options `--help', which prints a
 summary of the options to `config.status', and `--version', which
 prints the version of Autoconf used to create the `configure' script
 that generated `config.status'.
 
    `config.status' checks several optional environment variables that
 can alter its behavior:
 
  -- Variable: CONFIG_SHELL
      The shell with which to run `configure' for the `--recheck'
      option.  It must be Bourne-compatible.  The default is `/bin/sh'.
 
  -- Variable: CONFIG_STATUS
      The file name to use for the shell script that records the
      configuration.  The default is `./config.status'.  This variable is
      useful when one package uses parts of another and the `configure'
      scripts shouldn't be merged because they are maintained separately.
 
    The following variables provide one way for separately distributed
 packages to share the values computed by `configure'.  Doing so can be
 useful if some of the packages need a superset of the features that one
 of them, perhaps a common library, does.  These variables allow a
 `config.status' file to create files other than the ones that its
 `configure.in' specifies, so it can be used for a different package.
 
  -- Variable: CONFIG_FILES
      The files in which to perform `@VARIABLE@' substitutions.  The
      default is the arguments given to `AC_OUTPUT' in `configure.in'.
 
  -- Variable: CONFIG_HEADERS
      The files in which to substitute C `#define' statements.  The
      default is the arguments given to `AC_CONFIG_HEADER'; if that
      macro was not called, `config.status' ignores this variable.
 
    These variables also allow you to write `Makefile' rules that
 regenerate only some of the files.  For example, in the dependencies
 given above ( Automatic Remaking), `config.status' is run twice
 when `configure.in' has changed.  If that bothers you, you can make
 each run only regenerate the files for that rule:
 
      config.h: stamp-h
      stamp-h: config.h.in config.status
              CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS=config.h ./config.status
              echo > stamp-h
 
      Makefile: Makefile.in config.status
              CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= ./config.status
 
 (If `configure.in' does not call `AC_CONFIG_HEADER', there is no need
 to set `CONFIG_HEADERS' in the `make' rules.)
Info Catalog
(autocf21.info.gz) Invoking configure
(autocf21.info.gz) Top
(autocf21.info.gz) Questions
automatically generated byinfo2html