[Tfug] locating configure info

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:15:22PM -0700, Scott Denlinger wrote:
>I'm running Debian Woody, but I decided to install Apache 2.0.47 from
>source, since I'm not ready to upgrade to testing yet. This is an
>embarassing question to have to ask, but I seem to have lost the piece
>of paper I wrote down all the arguments I passed to the ./configure
>script when I installed 2.0.47. Now that I want to upgrade to 2.0.48, is
>there a way I can recapture that data? Is there a file or log entry in
>my 2.0.47 source directory which would have captured that during the
>installation process?

Since you mention 'configure', I'm assuming that Apache is using GNU autoconf
to generate that file.  When you run configure one of the files it generates
is config.status.  The purpose of this file is to reconfigure the source dir
the same way as when it was generated.  It also stores the options used gave
to configure.  Depending on the version of autoconf that generated the
configure, you can either:
 1) Run ./config.status --version
    This will show you what options were used as well as normal version info.
 2) Look at the top of the config.status file (autoconf < 2.50 I think)

>I'm relatively new to installing from source, so I haven't mastered all the tricks
>yet. I'm hoping there's something I can just copy over into my 2.0.48
>source directory before I run make. Is this possible?
>
>And more generally, is there a better way to capture configuration data
>for programs installed from source than writing it down on paper?

If you intend to keep the source dir around, then that will suffice.
Otherwise, just copy the options out and paste them in some other file.  Use
much less space that way.  :)


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