Thank you so much for your help, Anthony, Adam, and Micheal! That was
great! Wow! WHat a rush! And how easy! It's really pretty empowering
for a newbie to compile their first program like that! At least for me
it was. RPM's may be easier, but I really wanted to see how it was
done.
This is one of the most common newbie questions, and one that gave me fits
before I figured out the "secret".
First off, I suggest rpm's instead of doing it by source. RPM's are just plain
easier. But if you're stuck on source, or need the source for some reason...
Untar the file. ("tar -xvzf
Anybody know where I can find some good documentation on compiling
different sorts of programs from the source-code. I wanna try to
compile and install gaim as my first try.
-Paul R
PS (The readme for gaim mentions GTK, I seem to have that on the system
but can't seem to call it up.)
All decent programs these days tend to go something like:
./configure
make
make install
ldconfig
When things go well that's about it. When they don't well then it is a lot
of digging through libraries and code. ;
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Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes
Paul R wrote:
Anybody know where I can find some good documentation on compiling
different sorts of programs from the source-code. I wanna try to
compile and install gaim as my first try.
-Paul R
PS (The readme for gaim mentions GTK, I seem to have that on the system
but can't seem
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Anybody know where I can find some good documentation on compiling
different sorts of programs from the source-code. I wanna try to
compile and install gaim as my first try.
-Paul R
You should already have gaim on your system. Just open a terminal and
