How to display error messages during .configure to the standard console?

When compiling from source, we use .configure as the first step. .configure may call some other commands like cc which may fail and print error messages, like header not found or some other compile errors. But these error messages are not displayed on the standard console where I run .configure. This causes difficulty in troubleshooting because sometimes .configure will only tell you it fails. So, how to force error messages of commands called during .configure to be displayed on the standard console, possibly multiplexed with other normal .configure messages?

Solution 1:

You did not specify which package you are dealing with.

Regardless, the output (stdout, stderr, and other info) of ./configure (not .configure) is not lost. It is typically contained in files in the working directory, e.g., config.log.