What are various options / arguments for "./configure" in Linux What are various options / arguments for "./configure" in Linux linux linux

What are various options / arguments for "./configure" in Linux


./configure --help

That will show you all options for that particular configure script.


Some are the same across all configure scripts produced by Autoconf (which is most of them, but not all); for instance --prefix is basically universal. Others are peculiar to the particular configure script.


I know about configure --help but the information provided is "light". The following GNU resources contain useful additional information:

Installation directory variables

Release process