- The common case
- ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
- If something fails read the last lines. Typical reason to
- fail is a missing dependency, such as libtool or gettext.
- Autotools
- `./autogen.sh' generates all files needed to compile
- and install the code (run it after checkout from git)
- `make distclean' removes all unnecessary files, but the
- code can still be recompiled with "./configure; make"
- `make dist-gzip' (or -bzip2) creates a tarball that can
- be configured and compiled without running `./autogen.sh'
- Compiling
- Use SUID_CFLAGS and SUID_LDFLAGS when you want to define
- special compiler options for typical suid programs, for
- example:
- ./configure SUID_CFLAGS="-fpie" SUID_LDFLAGS="-pie"
- The SUID_* feature is currently supported for chfn, chsh,
- newgrp, su, write, mount, and umount.
- Use DAEMON_CFLAGS and DAEMON_LDFLAGS when you want to define
- special compiler options for daemons; supported for uuidd.
- Use SOLIB_CFLAGS and SOLIB_LDFLAGS when you want to define
- special compiler options for shared libraries; supported for
- libmount, libblkid and libuuid.
- FIXME: add notes about klib and uClib.
- Compile certain portion
- See ./configure --help and use --disable-* and --enable-* options.
- It's also possible to disable all the programs and enable only wanted.
- For example:
- ./configure --disable-all-programs --enable-fallocate
- Note that the configure script tracks dependencies between libs and
- tools. Always see warning messages and follow error messages if any
- dependence is necessary. For example to compile mount(8) you need also
- libmount, libblkid and libuuid:
- ./configure --disable-all-programs --enable-mount --enable-libmount \
- --enable-libblkid --enable-libuuid
- Static linking
- Use --enable-static-programs[=LIST] configure option when
- you want to use statically linked programs.
- Note, mount(8) uses get{pw,gr}nam() and getpwuid()
- functions for translation from username and groupname to
- UID and GID. These functions could be implemented by
- dynamically loaded independent modules (NSS) in your libc
- (e.g. glibc). These modules are not statically linked to
- mount(8) and mount.static is still using dlopen() like
- dynamically linked version.
- The translation won't work in environment where NSS
- modules are not installed.
- For example normal system (NSS modules are available):
- # ./mount.static -v -f -n -ouid=kzak /mnt/foo
- LABEL=/mnt/foo on /mnt/foo type vfat (rw,uid=500)
- ^^^^^^^
- and without NSS modules:
- # chroot . ./mount.static -v -f -n -ouid=kzak /mnt/win
- LABEL=/mnt/win on /mnt/win type vfat (rw,uid=kzak)
- ^^^^^^^^