I'd like to see a meeting about building packages with tools like cmake. I know that the basic steps include wget something tar something cd somewhere cmake // i have no idea what this does make // what does this do? sudo make install // what really goes on here?
It would be nice to analize the file system before and after each step, like this: wget something // Downloaded file. There is now a new file on the filesystem in the current directory tar something // Uncompresses archive. There is now a new directory, as a child of the current directory. It is full of files. cd somewhere // Move to new directory cmake // What is written in this step? Where? If I have to do it again, what must be erased first? make // What does this do? What does it write? sudo make install // Same questions as above. I could bring a laptop with a fresh Kubuntu install in a 10 GB partition for testing. The laptop has VGA out and wifi. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux