Building numactl

TL;DR:

$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

Start by configuring the build running the configure script:

$ ./configure

You can pass options to configure to define build options, to pass it compiler paths, compiler flags and to define the installation layout. Run ./configure --help for more details on how to customize the build.

Once build is completed, build numactl with:

$ make

If you would like to increase verbosity by printing the full build command lines, pass make the V=1 parameter:

$ make V=1

You can build and run the tests included with numactl with the following command:

$ make check

The results will be saved in test/*.log files and a test-suite.log will be generated with the summary of test passes and failures.

Install numactl to the system by running the following command as root:

# make install

You can also install it to a staging directory, in which case it is not required to be root while running the install steps. Just pass a DESTDIR variable while running make install with the path to the staging directory.

$ make install DESTDIR=/path/to/staging/numactl

Using a snapshot from the Git repository

First, the build system files need to be generated using the ./autogen.sh script, which calls autoreconf with the appropriate options to generate the configure script and the templates for Makefile, config.h, etc.

Once those files are generated, follow the normal steps to configure and build numactl.

In order to create a distribution tarball, use make dist from a configured build tree. Use make distcheck to build a distribution tarball and confirm that rebuilding from that archive works as expected, that building from out-of-tree works, that test cases pass.