Compiling an APP

[Stefan Hakenberg]

Hello Wallydog,

I am so much a newbie myself that perhaps I shouldn't even answer your 
question but I think with more and more experience one tends to forget 
the problems of the very beginning and if  I don't answer you now you 
may just have to wait a long time untill you get this advice from the 
way more experienced YDL-users on this group.

I haven't done much compiling myself but the biggest hurdle for a while 
was that I didn't know that in order to do
#./configure
etc I had to cd to the folder where the files were that I wanted to 
configure.

Let's say you have downloaded your src.rpms to a folder /etc/newapp/ 
then you should do
#cd /etc/newapp/
before you
#./configure
and all this, of course, as a root user.

I hope this is true and helps you.

Good Luck!

Stefan


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> Message: 12
> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 22:57:59 -0400
> Subject: Compiling an APP
> From: Wallydog <indegra@earthlink.net>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
> I downloaded some files, they are .gz files and .tgz files and some 
> source code.
> Every time i ask someone how to uses the programs, i always
> get, just read the READ ME...or just compile it.  most of these don't 
> have read me's.
> I'm a complete NEWBEE...  I have no clue what the commands are for the 
> terminal to compile an
> app....How do I do it???  Is there any resources out there on the net to 
> help me..
> 
> wallydog-
> 
> 
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> Message: 13
> From: "William Carty" <admin@thinktankdecoy.com>
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Subject: Re: Compiling an APP
> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 23:23:02 -0400
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wallydog" <indegra@earthlink.net>
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 10:57 PM
> Subject: Compiling an APP
> 
> 
> 
>>I downloaded some files, they are .gz files and .tgz files and some
>>source code.
>>Every time i ask someone how to uses the programs, i always
>>get, just read the READ ME...or just compile it.  most of these don't
>>have read me's.
>>I'm a complete NEWBEE...  I have no clue what the commands are for the
>>terminal to compile an
>>app....How do I do it???  Is there any resources out there on the net to
>>help me..
>>
>>
> 
> Most of the time it's just going to be:
> 
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> 
> That'll take care of about 90% of the things you would need to compile from
> source.  The actual instructions should be included in either the README or
> INSTALL file that came with the app.  It's rare that you don't get at least
> one of those with basic instructions.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> 
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