This window allows you to choose among the various configuration options provided by the autoconf configure script in the current directory.
This window can be opened automatically when the Makefile is being updated (if the Build Makefile from Imakefile or Makefile.in checkbox is on), or manually by selecting Makefile or Run configure... from the Build menu. See Make Systems for more information.
When the window is opened, the options you chose the last time are the default values. [1] This information is read from the config.status file, so it will be used even if you have never used maketool in this directory before.
The window has two modes, Basic (the default) and Advanced. The Advanced... button toggles between these two modes.
In Basic mode, the window has the following panes:
Contains options related to directories and filenames used by the software package. In Basic mode the only option is Install architecture-independent files in PREFIX, which specifies the directory under which all the software project's files will be installed (e.g. /usr/local).
Contains options which control user-selectable features of the configure script. The exact contents depend on the particular script, and this may pane may not even be present if configure is particularly simple.
Shows the command line of the configure script that corresponds to the options you have chosen. Note that the tooltip on each option shows you the name of the commandline option passed to configure.
In Advanced mode, more options become available in all the panes, and two new panes appear:
Contains options related to the behaviour of the configure script itself.
Contains options related to cross-compilation. This may pane may not be present if configure is particularly simple.
[1] | An exception is the Do not create output files option, which for obvious reasons is not saved in config.status. |