Subj : Polling - Still not a solution
To   : Tony Langdon
From : rick christian
Date : Fri Oct 21 2016 07:40 am

On 10/19/2016 07:46 PM, Tony Langdon -> mark lewis wrote:

 TL> Agree. Most Linux software compilation is a 3 step process these days...

DEFINITELY VEHEMENTLY DISAGREE!

 TL> ./configure [options]
 TL> make
 TL> sudo make install

And it proceeds to spit out screens full of errors... that have NO MEANING to 
me... and nothing is compiled.


 TL> Yes, there's variations, but they're usually fairly straightforward.
 TL> The
 TL> hardest thing about compiling from source is getting the dependencies
 TL> sorted,
 TL> especially since the packages required vary from distribution to
 TL> distribution.

And there is the point!

VERY FEW of these list:

To compile:

sudo apt-get install somelib, somelib-dev.....

Now that you've got the needed files we can compile the real program

The Magic 3 Lines might work.... BUT they depend on YOUR SYSTEM HAVING ALL the 
LIBS already... Well you need to list them in the steps!!! Not ASS U me I have 
them OR ASS U I am going to decipher the cryptic output of gcc.

Don't ASS U me that my systems have 1000's of libs for development on them! 
They do not!

 
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