Configuring Your Package
The GCS describes the configuration process in the "How Configuration Should Work" subsection of Section 7. Up to this point, we've been able to do about everything we've wanted to with Jupiter using only makefiles, so you might be wondering what configuration is actually for. The opening paragraphs of this subsection in the GCS answer our question:
Each GNU distribution should come with a shell script named
configure. This script is given arguments which describe the kind of machine and system you want to compile the program for. Theconfigurescript must record the configuration options so that they affect compilation.The description here is the specification of the interface for the
configurescript in GNU packages. ...
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