options' default values of autoconf ./configure scripts

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Published on 2012-04-07T09:37:50Z Indexed on 2012/04/07 11:36 UTC
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Having run ./configure --help there is a list of options that can be tweaked in the future build, for example

--enable-luajit         Enable LuaJit Support
--disable-env           clearing/setting of ENV vars

Though any option can be used with enable and disable prefix, some are presented as --enable-me and other as --disable-me in the help output.

Is this supposed to hint me of default values, and if yes, how do I to figure them out? Because either way makes sense to me:

  1. luajit is disabled by default and therefore it is presented as --enable-luajit so I can enable it by conveniently copy-pasting it from help output to command line.

  2. being listed with --enable in help output indicates that luajit is enabled by default.

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