Reply:Woo Hoo! Snoopy Dance! Typing this from the imac

[Longman, Bill]

> PS.  If I want to turn an x86 linux program into something 
> YDL can use, I'd have to compile it, correct?

Ja, das ist korrect.

You'd also need to make sure you had all the libraries required to compile
it, too. Typically, a "configure" script is provided and you just run that.
It then looks at the libraries on your system, detects what kind it is and
creates a "makefile" that does the choreography for compiling the
application.

Here are the typical keystrokes:

./configure --help | less

  <browse through the mumbo jumbo you see on screen and pick the options>

./configure --with-niftyoption --with-spiffylib

  <watch it figure out what you got. If libs are missing here is where
   you'll see it. You may need to install them.>

make

  <watch it compile...ooo....ahhhh>

sudo -s

make install

  <watch it install...ooo...ahhhh>


End of typical keystrokes.

Run your nifty new program. Oooo. Ahhhh.