Subj : Re: Polling - Still not a solution
To   : rick christian
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Sat Oct 22 2016 08:14 am

-=> rick christian wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 rc> @MSGID: <580A073F.1043.fido-binkd@freeway.apana.org.au>
 rc> 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...

 rc> DEFINITELY VEHEMENTLY DISAGREE!

No need to shout, and yes, as I said, the biggest problem with compiling from
source is working out what libraries ( -dev/-devel packages) you need.  A
seconf potential issue for older systems is having the correct versions of
dependencies.  This is not as common, but is often harder to solve, because it
usually means adding repositories to your distribution for third party
additions, or sompiling some of those libraries from source.

But my point stands, for the most part, compiling from source is usually fairly
straightforward, with the most common requirement being to install a few -dev
(or -devel if you're on a Red Hat flavour) for your distribution.

If you think it's hard now, 20 years ago, there were often no package
management systems, and what there were were less powerful (think dpkg without
apt and rpm without yum), and you had to edit the Makefile directly to suit
your own system, with limited knowledge of what you were doing. On those
systems, even without having to compile from source, just installing a
packagemeant manually having to look for dependencies from either the CD or the
Internet.


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