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

[Norberto Quintanar]

Nice AhhhNawld accent ;)  My favorite place for RPM's is 

http://rpm.pbone.net


I say that because you will almost always be missing some lbrary.  
--- "Longman, Bill" <longman@sharplabs.com> wrote:
> > 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.
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