another stab at my compiler problem

[Joe Auty]

This will be my last email to this list about this.... I'm cutting 
myself off. =)

Sorry, this message was intended to be private! I'll be sure that future 
email is kept private!!


So sorry...


On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 09:28  AM, Joe Auty wrote:

> Thanks very much for this list!!
>
> One of the reasons I wanted to do this by hand like you described 
> (besides from my HD space problem), is that this is on a NuBus Mac and 
> I've only been able to find an install kernel/ram disk for installing 
> YDL 2.0. My idea was to compile/update the stuff I cared about by hand 
> (ssh for one), and maybe one day yup the rest....
>
> Many many thanks!!
>
> On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 09:21  AM, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Joe Auty wrote:
>>> I don't quite have enough HD space for an install which would include
>>> compiler support. As it is, I'm trying to figure out which RPMs I'd 
>>> need
>>> to install to add compiler (gcc) support to an existing install (the
>>> internet server package).
>>
>>  What I would recommend is installing the base install and then adding
>> what you need on top of it (this is what I do for all my servers). Last
>> summer Takashi Oe posted this handy list:
>>
>> autoconf
>> automake
>> binutils
>> bison
>> blt
>> byacc
>> bzip2-devel
>> cdecl
>> cpp
>> cproto
>> ctags
>> cvs
>> diffutils
>> flex
>> gcc-*
>> gdb
>> gettext
>> glibc-devel
>> gperf
>> indent
>> libtool
>> libtool-libs
>> m4
>> make
>> patch
>> readline-*
>> rcs
>> rgrep
>> rsh
>> rsync
>> sed
>> sharutils
>> strace
>> texinfo
>> tclx
>> tix
>> tk
>> tkinter
>> umb-scheme
>> unarj
>> unzip
>> zlib
>> zlib-devel
>>
>>  Usually what I do is install most of these and then compile anything 
>> else
>> I need from source (like apache + openssl + mod_php, Postgres, openssh,
>> etc.). For most publically accessible apps, I would strongly recommend
>> compiling from source. This way, if there is an exploit found, you can
>> likley have a patch long before you would be able to find any RPMs
>> available (especially for PPC). Also, this gives you the option to 
>> change
>> any compile time options that you might need that aren't normally 
>> compiled
>> into any distro RPMs. It takes me a little under an hour to do a base
>> install and compile all server apps (and a new kernel).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>
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>>
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