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If for some reason you don't want to do that, you can also set DO_NOT_COMPILE="someapp" before calling configure, which will make configure skip "someapp". To only compile very few toplevel dirs, instead of using DO_NOT_COMPILE to exclude most of them, you can list in a file named inst-apps, at the toplevel, the toplevel subdirs you want to compile.