Assar Westerlund writes:
> "John A. Crow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I would like to know what is the standard or preferred way of setting
> > a variable at the configure command line.
>
> In the CVS version of autconf you can do:
>
> configure MYVAR="value of myvar"
>
> In autoconf 2.13, you have to do:
>
> env MYVAR="value of myvar" configure
That's C shell syntax, which is quite limited. In Bourne (or compatible;
bash, ksh ...) shell, you can specify a number of variables
$ VAR1=value1 VAR2=value2 ... VARn=valuen ./configure ...
