David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Mar 31, 2006, at 16:01, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It seems rather pointless to document two instances of what is in fact
>> a generic autoconf-script behavior ...
> I'm sorry to be such a moron about this, but what exactly is that
> behavior? That you can specify an environment variable for whatever *
> is in --with-*?
The generic autoconf documentation says
You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters by setting variables in the command line or in
theenvironment. Here is an example:
./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
This isn't super helpful, of course, since it doesn't say exactly which
variables any particular autoconf script responds to. But pretty much
all of the programs that a configure script searches for are reflected
as variables. A quick grep through our configure script for the phrase
"Let the user override" finds a couple dozen hits, and that's just for
programs, never mind non-program variables.
regards, tom lane