Re: how to specify flags without having them in the command line call to ./configure?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, NightStrike wrote:
> > If this is for use on your own machine, then you should set up a
> > config.site file.  By default, the file resides at
> > $prefix/share/config.site.
>
> This implies that the config.site is in the prefix directory before
> you start.  But isn't prefix allowed to not exist, and thus be created
> by a make install?

Right.  The config.site file is intended for "site" specific 
configuration information and so the installation prefix needs to 
exist already.  The config.site file is (primarily) for package users, 
not package maintainers.

The CONFIG_SITE environment variable may be used to specify the path 
to the config.site file so there are ways to use it for something 
other than "site" specific configuration information.

Bob
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