Re: How to determine make configure options

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Zartaj T. Majeed" <address@hidden> writes:

  ztm> Is there a way to determine what configure options were used to
  ztm> build a given GNU make 3.79.1 binary?  In particular, I'd like to
  ztm> know if --disable-nsec-timestamps was used or not.  If there's no
  ztm> make option that provides this info, can I use nm to look for
  ztm> symbol or some other tool to examine the binary?

I don't know of any (portable) way to find this out, actually.

You might try running make with -d; some of the messages it prints when
it decides whether a file is out of date or not will contain fractional
seconds if it was compiled with support for subsecond timestamps, and
just simple integer sections if it wasn't.

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