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Good day all,
I am a new user to tinker board and Linux. I am having a great time learning on this incredible machine!
In learning to use Debian Linux, I have been reading "The Linux® Command Line by William E. Shotts, Jr.". In this book he refers to what I believe is a script "configure". I cannot seem to be able to find that script in my tinker. Does it have another name or is it not included. I am building an HTTP/C BACNet interface. At this point I have installed all software needed with no huge problem.
I do appreciate any help and information on this.
Best regard's,
Maurice
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Hi Maurice!
Where is this script supposed to be located in the file system and what is it supposed to do/configure?
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thank you for your interest in my request for info. The way I understand it it is a preprocessor for C progs to make them compatible for hardware and would be called before the "make" command, As to where it should be locatad, I have no idea.
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04-11-2018, 11:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-11-2018, 11:59 PM by Leviathan.)
(04-11-2018, 11:21 PM)Maurice Wrote: thank you for your interest in my request for info. The way I understand it it is a preprocessor for C progs to make them compatible for hardware and would be called before the "make" command, As to where it should be locatad, I have no idea.
Hey,
you seem to be almost right. Yes, the configure script is a preparing part of the compiling process. You will find information about it if you do research for "make" and "make install", e.g. here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configure_script
The configure script would be delivered with the source code, so it is not one general purpose program in Debian.
In order to install software in Debian it is not necessary to compile it yourself, instead software can be delivered in precompiled .deb packages, which is also the most common way I guess. If you install software using apt/dpkg you can even deal with just the names of the software as long as you obtain the .deb packages from the repositories of your /etc/apt/sources.list.
Did you want to do anything in particular with such a configure script or did you just stumble upon it while reading?
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Thank you for your help. I will read on as you suggest!
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