On Saturday 10 January 2004 15:09, James Fletemeyer wrote: <snip>
You can also use checkinstall which is a wrapper for make install. If you download a program *.tar.gz run configure then make simplely substitute checkinstall for make install. This will determine what files make install will actually install ask some questions about standard documentation and then build an rpm which i9s placeed in /usr/src/packages/RPM/i***. Checkinstall is included in 9.0.
Thanks, James. I saw checkinstall but ignored it because I was familiar with a different program with the same name. -- "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." -- George Orwell as Syme in "1984"