Pass arguements to the build script on to configure.

cflags="$c_warnings $extra_flags"

cxxflags="$cxx_warnings $base_cxxflags $extra_flags"

configure="./configure $base_configs $extra_configs"

for arg in "$@"; do

  configure="$configure "`echo "$arg" | sed -e 's,\([^a-zA-Z0-9_.-]\),\\\\\1,g'`

done

CFLAGS="$cflags" CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS="$cxxflags" eval "$configure"