On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Tanveer Singh wrote: > > Meanwhile I think I am getting a phd in building kde. > > I had to copy the libacl.la to a private dir, change the path to .so > for > > libattr(its in /usr/lib instead of /lib but libattr.la says its in > /lib). > > Then I had to do a sed s:/lib/libattr.la:/private/dir/libattr.la:g on > all > > the kde .la files in my $KDEDIR to build it. > > Redhat enterprise sure comes with some quirckyness. > > All the best! > > Just one question: apart from the fun of it how maintainable is this > setup? Do you document/script each step to be able to repeat later? > That's two questions, oh well. > > -- Manish > \ > Well I don't have a choice since at work I cannot get root access. Otherwise rpm -ivh is the best option I think. But the bright side is that I can choose what to build. As for how maintainable is this setup, for big packages like kde etc., there are actually no issues. The .la problem cropped up just because of the bug in Redhat Enterprise 4. Otherwise on a normal system, building from source is actually not tough at all. I used to have gentoo on my home machine. So if you take care of all dependencies(this is done by going through the docs) its easy work. But building from sources sure takes time, and in the end using the package manager is a better option. but then if you want to go bleeding edge build from sources. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
