Recipe installing a download via configure/make/make install

The configure-make-make-install recipe automates installation of configure-based source distribution into buildouts.

Options

url

The URL of a source archive to download

configure-command

The name of the configure script.

The option defaults to ./configure.

configure-options

Basic configure options.

Defaults to a --prefix option that points to the part directory.

extra_options

A string of extra options to pass to configure in addition to the base options.

environment

Optional environment variable settings of the forme NAME=VALUE.

Newlines are ignored. Spaces may be included in environment values as long as they can't be mistaken for environment settings. So:

environment = FOO=bar
              baz

Sets the environment variable FOO, but:

environment = FOO=bar xxx=baz

Sets 2 environment values, FOO and xxx.

patch

The name of an optional patch file to apply to the distribution.

patch_options

Options to supply to the patch command (if a patch file is used).

This defaults to -p0

shared

Share the build accross buildouts.

autogen

The name of a script to run to generate a configure script.

source-directory-contains

The name of a file in the distribution's source directory.

This is used by the recipe to determine if it has found the source directory. It defaults top "configure".