Automake adding flags to install.sh - makefile

I am using autotools to build some packages that I want the headers to be installed only if they are changed.
I see that install.sh has a flag -C for installing only if different, but how do i set that flag in autotools?
In my Makefile.am I am providing nobase_libhello_include_HEADERS = file1.h file2.h if that helps.

You override the install command when calling configure:
./configure INSTALL="/usr/bin/install -C"

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How to fix ./configure in MSYS2?

I'm trying to build libxc-4.3.4 in an MSYS2 shell on Windows 10. I've installed the latest version of MSYS2 (msys2-x86_64-20220319.exe) and followed the installation instructions. I've installed build tools using
pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain autoconf
I've installed libxc dozens of time on Linux machines. The first step is
./configure --prefix /somewhere
But in MSYS2 I get
$ ./configure --prefix $PWD/../libxc
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
How can I make this work?
MSYS2 prerequisites
First of all make sure MSYS2 has all programs that are needed.
In the MSYS2 shell first update the package manager information:
pacman -Syu --noconfirm
Then install the packages you need. I would recommend at least these:
pacman -S --noconfirm autoconf autoconf-archive automake make libtool pkg-config
Project sources
Next you should make sure the folder you are in actually has a configure script:
ls -l configure
A lot of projects these days are switching to more efficient build systems like CMake or Meson.
I usually use the following command in the projects source folder to check for several build systems:
ls -ld configure* m4 CMakeLists.txt cmake Makefile GNUmakefile setup.py scons SConscript SConstruct meson.build meson_options.txt *.pro *.proj *.sln BUILD.gn .gn 2> /dev/null
building libxc
For the libxc project I see there is a CMakeLists.txt file and also a configure.ac file.
So either you should look into using CMake or generate the configure file with:
touch README ChangeLog
autoreconf -f -i -I m4
I have just tried to build libxc in MSYS2 with CMake and Ninja and this worked:
# set the line below to the desired install location
INSTALLPREFIX=D:\Prog\changeme
# build static library
cmake -Wno-dev -GNinja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$INSTALLPREFIX -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=OFF -DENABLE_PYTHON:BOOL=OFF -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF -S. -Bbuild_static &&
ninja -Cbuild_static install/strip &&
echo SUCCESS
# build shared library
cmake -Wno-dev -GNinja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$INSTALLPREFIX -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_PYTHON:BOOL=OFF -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF -S. -Bbuild_shared &&
ninja -Cbuild_shared install/strip &&
echo SUCCESS

How to specify a gcc path in pip command?

I am trying to install cupy 5.0.0. cupy5.0.0 needs gcc version not more than 7. My deafault gcc is gcc-9. I cannot use conda environment. Also i dont have sudo permission to change /usr/bin/gcc to point to gcc-7. Is there any way to pass gcc path to pip command?
You can use CXX, CC and LD environment variables to specify executable names or full paths to C++ and C compilers, and the linker.
Specify the variables only for one command:
CXX=g++-7 CC=gcc-7 LD=g++-7 pip install ...
Alternatively:
export CXX=g++-7
export CC=gcc-7
export LD=g++-7
pip install ...
You can also pass extra compiler and linker options in CXXFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS. Preprocessor options (e.g. include directories) go in CPPFLAGS.

How to compile openssl with afl-gcc

I need to compile openssl 1.0.1f version with afl-fuzz and then use it in an application to find heartbleed bug. I have done so far;
Go to openssl1.0.1f directory and run following command
./config CC="afl-gcc" CXX="afl-g++"
./config no-shared no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-comp enable-tlsext no-ssl2
make depend
make && make install
Everything works fine but during compilation I see gcc -I commands compiling files rather than afl-gcc and I donot see Instrumentation details at the end as I see it in simple programs I compile with afl-fuzz. I am not sure openssl has compiled with gcc or afl-gcc. I have also replaced gcc with afl-gcc in Makefile but no result.
Can someone please explain as in all blogs about openssl and afl-fuzz, I have found these commands only.
Thanks.
I was making a simple mistake of calling ./configure after manually making changes to Makefile. Each ./configure command overwrites previous Makefile. So my step should be in following order.
./config no-shared no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-comp enable-tlsext no-ssl2
make depend
Manually replace every occurrence of `gcc`to `afl-gcc` in Makefile
make && make install
Thanks.

Force use gcc to compile (instead of cc) in ./configure under Solaris Sparc

I want to build fossil code on Solaris.
wget http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/tarball/tip.tar.xz
tar xf tip.tar.xz ; cd tip.tar
./configure CC=gcc CXX=g++ C=gcc BCC=gcc # no error
It will cause
$make
cc -o bld/translate ./src/translate.c
/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed
$which cc
/usr/ucb/cc
$which gcc
/usr/local/bin/gcc
$which g++
/usr/local/bin/g++
I'm sure my gcc/g++ are workable. After I add a dirty hack on replace the 'BCC = cc' line of Makefilewith 'BCC = gcc' after ./configure. It compilable. But I don't know how to fix the source code.
I downloaded that tarball, ran command ./configure CC=gcc and found it did not work at all, the generated Makefile still use cc for default compiler.
Use vi edit Makefile, change
BCC = gcc
....
TCC = gcc
then make again.
Set the compiler in the environment.
export CC=gcc

Installing gcc 4.1.0 on ubuntu

I have latest version of ubuntu, but the version of gcc is higher than what I want. How do I build gcc 4.1.0 or install gcc 4.1.0 on this.
I did not find steps to build gcc 4.1.0
Here are the steps to building gcc:
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/
Note that, while "It refers to the current development sources, instructions for specific released versions are included with the sources."
It is a typical* configure, make, make install process. The most important configure flag is probably --enable-languages. and --prefix of course. Also --program-suffix=-4.1 will cause the generated executable to be called gcc-4.1 instead of gcc. The prerequisites list may look scary but most of it is optional, especially if only building for C/C++.
[*] ok, not so typical: another caveat pointed out by JonathanWakely in the comments below is that you shouldn't build gcc in the source dir since that is not supported, so :
(after getting all the prerequisites)
[gcc-src-dir] $ cd ../my-build-dir
[my-build-dir] $ ../gcc-src-dir/configure $CONFIG_FLAGS
[my-build-dir] $ make
[my-build-dir] $ make install
And he pointed to a wiki page he wrote which will walk you through the whole process.
I had a few issues installing gcc 4.1.2 on ubuntu (12.04 in my case). This script sorted it for me:
#!/bin/tcsh
if ($#argv != 1) then
echo "Synopsis: $argv[0] <install_dir>"
exit(-1)
endif
setenv GCCINSTALL $argv[1]
setenv LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
setenv SRC ~/gccSrc
mkdir -p $SRC
cd $SRC
wget http://gcc.cybermirror.org/releases/gcc-4.1.2/gcc-4.1.2.tar.gz
tar xvf gcc-4.1.2.tar.gz
cd gcc-4.1.2
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=${GCCINSTALL} --disable-multilib
grep 4.1.2/missing Makefile
sed -i "s#${SRC}/gcc-4.1.2/missing##" Makefile
grep 4.1.2/missing Makefile
make bootstrap
make install

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