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<p>You can specify compiler and/or compile and load time flags by using
environment variables during Berkeley DB configuration. For
example, if you want to use a specific compiler, specify the CC
environment variable before running configure:</p>
<pre class="programlisting">prompt: env CC=gcc ../dist/configure</pre>
<p>Using anything other than the native compiler will almost certainly mean
that you'll want to check the flags specified to the compiler and
loader, too.</p>
<p>To specify debugging and optimization options for the C compiler,
use the CFLAGS environment variable:</p>
<pre class="programlisting">prompt: env CFLAGS=-O2 ../dist/configure</pre>
<p>To specify header file search directories and other miscellaneous options
for the C preprocessor and compiler, use the CPPFLAGS environment variable:</p>
<pre class="programlisting">prompt: env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/contrib/include ../dist/configure</pre>
<p>To specify debugging and optimization options for the C++ compiler,
use the CXXFLAGS environment variable:</p>
<pre class="programlisting">prompt: env CXXFLAGS=-Woverloaded-virtual ../dist/configure</pre>
<p>To specify miscellaneous options or additional library directories for
the linker, use the LDFLAGS environment variable:</p>
<pre class="programlisting">prompt: env LDFLAGS="-N32 -L/usr/local/lib" ../dist/configure</pre>
<p>If you want to specify additional libraries, set the LIBS environment
variable before running configure. For example, the following would
specify two additional libraries to load, "posix" and "socket":</p>
<pre class="programlisting">prompt: env LIBS="-lposix -lsocket" ../dist/configure</pre>
<p>Make sure that you prepend -L to any library directory names and that you
prepend -I to any include file directory names! Also, if the arguments
you specify contain blank or tab characters, be sure to quote them as
shown previously; that is with single or double quotes around the values
you are specifying for LIBS.</p>
<p>The env command, which is available on most systems, simply sets one or
more environment variables before running a command. If the env command
is not available to you, you can set the environment variables in your
shell before running configure. For example, in sh or ksh, you could
do the following:</p>
<pre class="programlisting">prompt: LIBS="-lposix -lsocket" ../dist/configure</pre>
<p>In csh or tcsh, you could do the following:</p>
<pre class="programlisting">prompt: setenv LIBS "-lposix -lsocket"
prompt: ../dist/configure</pre>
<p>See your command shell's manual page for further information.</p>
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