Daniel Escasa wrote:
> Ehem. Going back to the blog post, one of the commenters there claimed
> he loved Linux but cited the need to compile software that's not in
> the repo, then the source doesn't compile. He also mentioned some
> hardware issues, but those are not relevant because Fr Stephen's
> running Ubuntu on a Mac. I thought -- and left a comment to that
> effect -- that software not in the repo is pretty rare and is likely
> dependent on the popularity of both the distro and the specific
> software. *Has* anyone had any software, especially software we might
> consider mainstream, that you've had to build from source? Any
> problems compiling?
>
> Regards.
>
I did postgresql some time ago.. Others are pretty standardized with
./configure, make, make install.. Compilation issues I encountered are
usually related with missing development/support libraries.
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