3) make
-4) make test
+4) make check
- This takes a bit of time (under 2 minutes on a modern machine) but
- is highly recommended. "make test" copies your configuration and
- rebuilds nmh completely in a sandbox, so you can test without
- disturbing an existing nmh installation or any of your nmh folders.
+ This takes a bit of time, around one minute on a modern machine,
+ but is highly recommended.
5) make install
By default, configure will use the "gcc" compiler if found. You can
use a different compiler, or add unusual options for compiling or
linking that the "configure" script does not know about, by giving
-"configure" initial values for these in its environment. Using a
-Bourne-compatible shell, such as sh, ksh, zsh, or bash, you can do
-that on the command line like this:
- CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure
+"configure" initial values for these on its command line or in its
+environment. For example,
-Or on systems that have the "env" program, you can do it like this:
- env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure
+ ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
-If you want to add to, not replace, compile flags, you can use OURDEFS
-with env or like this:
- OURDEFS='-Wextra -Wno-sign-compare' ./configure
+If you wish to add options that are only used at compile time instead of
+link time, you can use the CPPFLAGS variable:
-If you want to add to both compile and link flags at build time
-without putting them in the configuration, you can use an otherwise
-unused Makefile macro, like this:
- make AM_CFLAGS=--coverage
+ ./configure CPPFLAGS='-Wextra -Wno-sign-compare'
-That does not include that setting in the configuration, so you will
-have to repeat it if you re-run "make". One example would be if you
-build the test suite as a separate step:
- make test AM_CFLAGS=--coverage
+If you want to add to both compile and link flags at build time
+without putting them in the configuration, you can use the AM_CFLAGS
+Makefile macro:
-Though note that the Makefile test target depends on the default
-target, so both be can built in one step with "make test".
+ make AM_CFLAGS=--coverage
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Building nmh on additional architectures
source code in the directory that "configure" is in. For example,
cd /usr/local/solaris/nmh
- /usr/local/src/nmh-1.0/configure
+ /usr/local/src/nmh-1.5/configure
make
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