bash: Sharing Defaults
10.6 Sharing Defaults
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If you want to set default values for 'configure' scripts to share, you
can create a site shell script called 'config.site' that gives default
values for variables like 'CC', 'cache_file', and 'prefix'. 'configure'
looks for 'PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
'PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the
'CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
A warning: the Bash 'configure' looks for a site script, but not all
'configure' scripts do.