Re: Suggestion: Which Binary?

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