configure flags

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Published on 2012-09-12T18:15:04Z Indexed on 2012/09/12 21:50 UTC
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What is the ubuntu way of downloading the source for a package and then building it while passing specific flags to the configure portion of the process.... I hope I'm explaining what I mean properly.

Installing from source follows almost always the following procedure

./configure --FLAG-1 --FLAG-2
make && make install

How can I get control over specifying flags1 and 2 in the configure process?

Thanks, and I hope I did not make the question more complicated than it really is

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