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@@ -118,6 +118,20 @@ You can tune building by defining variables like `configure-options.FOO`, e. g.: configure-options.gnu = --without-ssl --with-gnutls configure-options.ssl = --with-ssl --without-gnutls +## autotools.mk + +This module defines configure, build and install targets by GNU autotools. +These targets are implicit (e. g. `configure-%-stamp`), and you can completely +override any of them by explicit target (e. g. `configure-foo-stamp`) in the top Makefile. +Build and install targets use target-specific variable `target` for invoking `make`. +This variable is empty for `build-%-stamp` and is set to "install" for `install-%-stamp`. +You can redefine it in the top Makefile to build/install only a subset of a package. E. g. +for NCurses with wide character support this will build and install only libraries (without +programs and terminal database): + + $(eval $(call add-variant,wide)) + build-wide-stamp: target = libs + install-wide-stamp: target = install.libs ## ips.mk |