Bind locally installed library

Question

I have no root access on a machine and I'm trying to install a library called GiNaC locally in my home folder.

I use this tutorial http://www.ginac.de/tutorial/Configuration.html#Configuration. At the end there is an example (don't need to disable the shared-library and I don't need a specific compiler).

Unfortunately if I do this

export CPPFLAGS="$(CPPFLAGS) -I$/home/xxx/include"
./configure

this is the result:

...
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/home/redies/ginac-1.6.2':
configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

In config.log there is the line

CPPFLAGS='CPPFLAGS: command not found -I$/home/xxx/include'

Any ideas?

Answer 1

There's an error in that tutorial: in the shell, variable expansions use braces, not parentheses, so you need to write ${CPPFLAGS} and not $(CPPFLAGS). You can leave the braces off, even. Also, if you replace $HOME by its value, the $ must go ($ followed by a variable name means “take the value of”).

export CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/home/xxx/include"

Oh, and if there's no prior value of CPPFLAGS in your environment, you can write this export CPPFLAGS="-I/home/xxx/include" (but it won't hurt to use $CPPFLAGS either, the value is empty if the variable has never been set).

Answer 2

I think that unless you've got extra CPPFLAGS values, this one would work;

CPPFLAGS="-I/home/xxx/include" ./configure

I also think you should run ./configure --help to see if this particular configure-script has command line flags to do what you want. The usual configure-script has piles of options to allow J. Random Non-root-user to install in in $HOME, or whatever.