The first and most important step in preparing source code to run on your system is to configure it so that, when built, the program exhibits the behavior you expect. The configuration process involves preparing a Makefile which contains default and/or customized information for your site and for your hardware/software system. If you are building the distribution for more than one platform, you must configure, compile, and install on each platform.
You can configure the software in this release by using the shell script
configure. The shell script accepts one argument, the host
type, although if you do not supply it configure is able to
determine it under most circumstances
(see section config.guess). In fact, in most cases we
recommend you not specify the type of host.
There are also several possible options, including a `--target=' option to configure for cross-system development. For various examples of these options, see section Examples and suggestions.
Your Developer's Kit contains full online documentation for Cygnus
configure. See section `Using configure' in Cygnus configure, to read about
configure in more detail, including information on how the
configure options are related to `Makefile' variables.
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