On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 16:35 +0100, Alan Louis Scheinine wrote: > I use Centos. For years and years I have compiled > from source Gnu Scientific Library and many, many > other software packages. I write notes while doing > the compiling from scratch so the next compilation > of the same package is rapid.
Turn your notes into code -- I write scripts to build the packages which as a side effect document things such as the arguments to configure. It's overkill for simple './configure ; make ; make install' packages, but has served well for complex packages. Scripting the build process paid off handsomely for me recently when I needed to build multiple versions of libraries using different versions of compilers in an attempt to track down a problems affected by compiler version. > Personally I cannot imagine using software applications > as found in any distribution. For any user request, I > compile from scratch from the software WWW site. Doesn't > everybody do this? Certainly with RHEL/Centos there isn't much choice, as even the epel repo doesn't add enough packages to get anywhere near what Ubuntu offers, for instance. And while I do want or need to build my own versions of MPICH and certain other libraries and packages needed by the users on the cluster, I have no interest in building programs for image viewers such as qiv and ggv just because they're not included in the distro, or worse, dropped in a new version (as was ggv from RHEL). Tod -- Tod Hagan Information Technologist AIRMAP/Climate Change Research Center Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 Phone: 603-862-3116 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
