[PLUG] Adding Options to Configure on Command Line

[Russell Johnson]

On Jan 21, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   For one application I have a 402 character file with configuration
> options. Is there a way to append it to ./configure on the command line?
> It's sometimes a PITA to copy it line-by-line and have bash honor the
> continuation character at the end of each line.
> 


So, you are looking for a way to do:

./configure option1 option2 …

Where option1 option2 … are from a file?

How about:

./configure `cat optionfile`

Russell Johnson
russ at dimstar.net