From: Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>,
Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: 'whence' question and others
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:53:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACeGjnU306MpOo8scFZp37PLrLLNu-ROO=N6Xu7RJSHo8X-0HQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5460EE92.6020307@eastlink.ca>
Hi, Ray -
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> Is there a decent doc for 'configure', what it does, how it
> works? I see the msg. scroll by, and they are mostly about what
> is and isn't available. One can easily understand that
> there'd be a check for essential stuff, but it seems do do much
> more than that. What makes a reconfigure necessary?
Autoconf is a set of scripts designed to ensure application
portability across multiple platforms. autoconf's homepage is:
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ . The autoconf manual is here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/index.html .
HTH,
Vin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-10 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <545A6D66.3080500@eastlink.ca>
[not found] ` <1458.1415209763@thecus.kiddle.eu>
[not found] ` <20141105180035.22f6e9b1@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
[not found] ` <141105204330.ZM2973@torch.brasslantern.com>
2014-11-06 21:10 ` 'whence' question Peter Stephenson
2014-11-06 21:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-08 20:41 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-09 18:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-10 5:15 ` 'whence' question and others Ray Andrews
2014-11-10 8:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-10 8:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-10 16:57 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-10 19:53 ` Vin Shelton [this message]
2014-11-11 16:52 ` 'whence' question Ray Andrews
2014-11-11 19:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-11 19:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-11 20:22 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-11 18:16 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-11 19:33 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-11 20:40 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-08 21:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-10 10:04 ` Peter Stephenson
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