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Originally Posted by
slak0
[...]The business about preprocessing may yield some info now that I know more about the options available for configure and make. Funny there was no man page for configure.[...]
While often perceived as such, configure is not, and never was, a part of any UNIX standard. It's basically just a script that checks for certain capabilities in the building system, but there's no predefined options to influence that process, or even a definition of how that should be done. And since every package is responsible for it's own configure script (if it even has one) there can't be a system-wide man page for it.