What does ./configure do? Why make then make install? How does it know where libs are? ( they are all there and loaded but it cant find them.) Why need libs if compiler is supposed to compile?

Jul 21, 2014 · Run the command it tells you to sudo dpkg --configure -a and it should be able to correct itself. If it doesn't try running sudo apt-get install -f (to fix broken packages) and then try …

Mar 27, 2010 · A configure script builds the Makefile from a template, substituting in things like where you want to install the code and what definitions are needed for the (C, C++, Fortran, …

Dec 21, 2014 · A configure script is just a unix shell script, so it might call all kinds of unix tools or use unix shell features. Only a very limited set of those tools work on Windows, or make sense …

Mar 11, 2017 · When you run ./configure --prefix= directory, you are indicating that the software should be installed under the directory directory. But this rarely, if ever, places loose files in …

Jul 2, 2020 · I've read about ConfigureAwait in various places (including SO questions), and here are my conclusions: ConfigureAwait(true): Runs the rest of the code on the same thread the …

The 'configure' command is NOT a standard Linux/UNIX command. configure is a script that is generally provided with the source of most standardized type Linux packages and contains …

Nov 21, 2017 · This may sound like a very generic question but here it goes. I have a requirement to create a configure script for my application, the result of this configure would be a generated …

Apr 3, 2016 · I'm trying out lighttpd for an embedded Linux project. I got the latest source package and started writing a master Makefile encapsulating all configure, compile, install (for testing) …

Every time you compile something from source, you go through the same 3 steps: $ ./configure $ make $ make install I understand, that it makes sense to divide the installing process into …