4.2 Configuring the Project

Configure task actions can be used to perform various checks and setup operations for a project. Example configure action block:

configure do
  check_cxx_compiler
  check_c_header "getopt.h"
end

If any configure task action blocks are present, they will be execute when the configure operation is performed. This happens if the user requests the configure task from the command line. It also happens if all of the following are true:

• The project has not yet been configured.
• A task that does not have autoconf set to false is being executed.
• The global autoconf setting has not been set to false.