Configuring and creating the makefile
The next step is to execute configure. This is a shell script which will run, to quote documentation, a number of tests to determine several system dependent variables. It will also create many files that will be used during compilation. We can get an idea about the options by executing the following command:
./configure --help > /tmp/config.txt
We can vi /tmp/config.txt and verify that there are over 80 options that can be used. These options can be broadly grouped into the following categories:
- Related to choosing directories. If architecture-independent files go to
/usr/local/pgsqlor elsewhere, where should the binaries go, where should the documentation files go, and so on. - Related to debugging, profiling, ...
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