The next step is to configure sowing for your particular computing environment. sowing can be built for most Unix systems; many of the programs can also be built for Microsoft Windows.
Configuration of sowing is done with the configure script contained in the top-level directory. This script is automatically generated by the Gnu autoconf program from the file configure.in, but you do not need to have autoconf yourself.
The configure script documents itself in the following way. If you type
configure --helpyou will get a complete list of arguments and their meanings. So the simplest way to document the options for configure is to just show its output here:
Usage: configure [options] [host] Options: [defaults in brackets after descriptions] Configuration: --cache-file=FILE cache test results in FILE --help print this message --no-create do not create output files --quiet, --silent do not print `checking...' messages --version print the version of autoconf that created configure Directory and file names: --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX [/usr/local] --exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX [same as prefix] --bindir=DIR user executables in DIR [EPREFIX/bin] --sbindir=DIR system admin executables in DIR [EPREFIX/sbin] --libexecdir=DIR program executables in DIR [EPREFIX/libexec] --datadir=DIR read-only architecture-independent data in DIR [PREFIX/share] --sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data in DIR [PREFIX/etc] --sharedstatedir=DIR modifiable architecture-independent data in DIR [PREFIX/com] --localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data in DIR [PREFIX/var] --libdir=DIR object code libraries in DIR [EPREFIX/lib] --includedir=DIR C header files in DIR [PREFIX/include] --oldincludedir=DIR C header files for non-gcc in DIR [/usr/include] --infodir=DIR info documentation in DIR [PREFIX/info] --mandir=DIR man documentation in DIR [PREFIX/man] --srcdir=DIR find the sources in DIR [configure dir or ..] --program-prefix=PREFIX prepend PREFIX to installed program names --program-suffix=SUFFIX append SUFFIX to installed program names --program-transform-name=PROGRAM run sed PROGRAM on installed program names Host type: --build=BUILD configure for building on BUILD [BUILD=HOST] --host=HOST configure for HOST [guessed] --target=TARGET configure for TARGET [TARGET=HOST] Features and packages: --disable-FEATURE do not include FEATURE (same as --enable-FEATURE=no) --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes] --with-PACKAGE[=ARG] use PACKAGE [ARG=yes] --without-PACKAGE do not use PACKAGE (same as --with-PACKAGE=no) --x-includes=DIR X include files are in DIR --x-libraries=DIR X library files are in DIR --enable and --with options recognized: --enable-cache - Turn on configure caching --enable-strict - turn on strict debugging when using gcc --enable-echo - Turn on strong echoing --enable-inplace - build the sowing program to run in the distribution directories, not the installation (/usr/local) directories --enable-memorycheck - Compile with memory checking code --with-wwwdir=directory - Specify the root directory for HTML documentation
Normally, you should use configure with as few arguments as you can.
Some sample invocations of configure are shown below. In many case, the detailed invocations below are the defaults, which you would get if you invoked configure with no arguments.
To build and test in-place, using strict checking with the Gnu C and C++
compilers:
configure --enable-strict --datadir=`pwd`/share --prefix=`pwd`