The full set of parameters available in configure can be obtained by typing
$ ./configure --help
The following parameters may be of interest to installers:
Directory and file names:
--prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
[/usr/local/pgsql]
--bindir=DIR user executables in DIR [EPREFIX/bin]
--libdir=DIR object code libraries in DIR [EPREFIX/lib]
--includedir=DIR C header files in DIR [PREFIX/include]
--mandir=DIR man documentation in DIR [PREFIX/man]
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)
--enable and --with options recognized:
--with-template=template
use operating system template file
see template directory
--with-includes=incdir site header files for tk/tcl, etc in DIR
--with-libs=incdir also search for libraries in DIR
--with-libraries=libdir also search for libraries in DIR
--enable-locale enable locale support
--enable-recode enable cyrillic recode support
--with-mb=encoding enable multi-byte support
--with-pgport=portnum change default startup port
--with-tcl use tcl
--with-tclconfig=tcldir tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh are in DIR
--with-perl use perl
--with-odbc build ODBC driver package
--with-odbcinst=odbcdir change default directory for odbcinst.ini
--enable-cassert enable assertion checks (debugging)
--with-CC=compiler use specific C compiler
--with-CXX=compiler use specific C++ compiler
Some systems may have trouble building a specific feature of Postgres. For example, systems with a damaged C++ compiler may need to specify --without-CXX to encourage the build procedure to ignore the libpq++ construction.