Options of the configure script

In fact configure has multiple options. These options allow you to customize your Polylib installation. The usage is:

 configure  [options] [host]

Options: [defaults in brackets after descriptions]

Configuration:

-cache-file=FILE	cache test results in FILE
-help	print this message
-no-create	do not create output files
-quiet, -silent	do not print `checking...' messages
-version	print the version of autoconf that created configure

Directory and file names:

-prefix=PREFIX	install architecture-independent files
	in PREFIX [/usr/local]
-exec-prefix=EPREFIX	install architecture-dependent files
	in EPREFIX [same as prefix]
-bindir=DIR	user executables in DIR [EPREFIX/bin]
-sbindir=DIR	system admin executables in
	DIR [EPREFIX/sbin]
-libexecdir=DIR	program executables in DIR [EPREFIX/libexec]
-datadir=DIR	read-only architecture-independent data
	in DIR [PREFIX/share]
-sysconfdir=DIR	read-only single-machine data
	in DIR [PREFIX/etc]
-sharedstatedir=DIR	modifiable architecture-independent data
	in DIR [PREFIX/com]
-localstatedir=DIR	modifiable single-machine data
	in DIR [PREFIX/var]
-libdir=DIR	object code libraries in DIR [EPREFIX/lib]
-includedir=DIR	C header files in DIR [PREFIX/include]
-oldincludedir=DIR	C header files for non-gcc in DIR [/usr/include]
-infodir=DIR	info documentation in DIR [PREFIX/info]
-mandir=DIR	man documentation in DIR [PREFIX/man]
-srcdir=DIR	find the sources in DIR [configure dir or ..]
-program-prefix=PREFIX	prepend PREFIX to installed program names
-program-suffix=SUFFIX	append SUFFIX to installed program names
-program-transform-name=PROGRAM	run sed PROGRAM on installed program names

Host type:

-build=BUILD	configure for building on BUILD [BUILD=HOST]
-host=HOST	configure for HOST [guessed]
-target=TARGET	configure for TARGET [TARGET=HOST]

Features and packages:

-disable-FEATURE	do not include FEATURE (same as -enable-FEATURE=no)
-enable-FEATURE[=ARG]	include FEATURE [ARG=yes]
-with-PACKAGE[=ARG]	use PACKAGE [ARG=yes]
-without-PACKAGE	do not use PACKAGE (same as -with-PACKAGE=no)
-x-includes=DIR	X include files are in DIR
-x-libraries=DIR	X library files are in DIR

-enable and -with options recognized:

-enable-int-lib	Enable that only an int library is constructed
-enable-longint-lib	Enable that only a long int library is constructed (default)
-enable-longlongint-lib	Enable that only a long long int library is constructed
-enable-gmpint-lib	Enable that only a gmp int library is constructed
-enable-allint-lib	Enable that 32, 64 and gmp int library is constructed
-enable-short-exec	Enable that the int library is used by the executables
	(by default, the long library is used if built)
-enable-extra-suffix	Enable that the executables take an extra suffix depending
	on the library size
-enable-all-exec	Enable that the two sized libraries are used to build
	two executables of each, which take an extra suffix
	depending on the library (by default, only the long library is used)
-enable-onlyshared	Enable that only a shared library is constructed
-enable-onlystatic	Enable that only a static library is constructed
-disable-install-lib	Disable installation of the library
-with-ldconfig-cache=FILE	Run ldconfig -C $<$ FILE $>$
-with-libgmp	DIR Location of the GMP Distribution

You should run './configure -enable-gmpint-lib' to use gmp. As mentioned earlier you can build the Polylib if you don't have GMP, but it will fail when an overflow occurs. The output of the configure script can be find in vars.mk and vars.mk.in which are included by the makefile. For installing the lib in a private directory you can use the prefix option:

./configure --prefix=MyDir