9 Jun
2002
9 Jun
'02
22:44
On Sunday 02 June 2002 12:21 pm, James.Rocks@equant.com wrote:
I have (so far) only installed from RPM ... can anyone tell me (in fairly basic terms) what I need to compile a program from source? Presumably I need a compiler ... then what?
Compilers for several popular languages such as C are installed by default. The usual proceedure for compiling a program nowadays is extracting a tarball with tar xzvf (if tar.gz) and then changing to the directory it created, run ./configure, run make, then use su to change to root and run "make install". (Without the quotes.) -- i'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- e. e. cummings