Re: compiling

From: Carolyn S Tysor (ctysor_at_email.unc.edu)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:53:40 -0400

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, J.O. Aho wrote:

> jimofadel wrote:
> > As a newbie, in about 5 tries I have yet to be able to successfully
> > compile an application from source files because I always get error
> > messages saying that there are dependencies on files that are not found
> > on my machine. I then do a google search for those files, and am
> > referred to download sites, but when I download the indicated
> > applications or files, I find that there are now other files that are
> > missing, and some of them I cannot find. I would like to have someone
> > make suggestions for a tutorial or other resource on downloading source
> > code and compiling applications.
> > I have used RPM files with success in most cases, but some
> > applications of interest do not have RPM packages.
>
> Most of the official packages that comes with your distro has a devel package,
> this is the package with the header files for a special application, this
> headerfiles are needed to be able to compile programs to use the libraries.
>
> When I used RedHat, I always had all the headerfiles installed too, this made
> it possible to compile applications downloaded from the net (I really made a
> RPM, as this ways I wouldn't get dependency problems).
>
> Most sources includes a program called configure, this is used to set the
> values and options for the build, running it without any options will set the
> default values (usually based on the authors favorite distro), do a
> ./configure --help
> in the source directory and you will get a list of options and a short
> description, if somethign isn't working, then you most likely have to give the
> path to the location of the headerfiles in question.
>
> For information how to build your own RPMs, check www.rpm.org
>
> //Aho
>
I had similar problems when I began compiling things from source. Rather
than attempting to download each dependency that was a problem, I found it
more effective to search forums. Often I didn't have serious dependency
problems; I had some small config problems.

kate

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