Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Reading the other replies, I suspect you are talking about compiling Debian source packages or something else, while make is not the only thing coders do use, for make you usually have to run three command configure make make install resp. make love, not install - from another Linux user

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 01/31/2013 08:44 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i normally install things from the repository of debian by apt-get install however just need to know if in case circumstances push me to compile things at some point.so the question that i am asking is just for learning purpose. i have seen

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks all , thanks for the detailed answer but do you think compiling is a good solution to go-with, except installing the package from repository. i have heard that people always suggest to install packages from repository not by compiling. i know repo should contain old release but stable one

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread berenger . morel
Le 31.01.2013 13:15, Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : Thanks all , thanks for the detailed answer but do you think compiling is a good solution to go-with, except installing the package from repository. i have heard that people always suggest to install packages from repository not by

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 31 Jan 06:16 -0600, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thanks all , thanks for the detailed answer but do you think compiling is a good solution to go-with, except installing the package from repository. i have heard that people always suggest to install packages from repository not by

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 17:15 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thanks all , thanks for the detailed answer but do you think compiling is a good solution to go-with, except installing the package from repository. i have heard that people always suggest to install packages from repository not

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 13:29 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: _ easier to remove No, self compiled is as easy to remove as a package _ easier to maintain No, simply build a package _ tried by other (at least, by people who made them) Correct, they are tested by the community, the

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Go Linux
--- On Thu, 1/31/13, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: From: Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com Subject: make command understanding To: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 1:44 AM i normally install things from the repository of debian by

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
_ less dependencies (no need to install all *-dev packages of their dependencies, and their own dependencies, same for makefile The dependencies for the build package or directly installed software are the same But it's not completely untrue, that there could appear dependency issues.

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread berenger . morel
Le 31.01.2013 14:47, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 13:29 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: _ easier to remove No, self compiled is as easy to remove as a package Of course, there are the make uninstall co commands, but can you use them with a centralized package

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 31 ian 13, 14:47:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 13:29 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: _ easier to remove No, self compiled is as easy to remove as a package You are assuming that both 'make install' and 'make uninstall' are correct and maintained. At least

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com writes: Thanks all , thanks for the detailed answer but do you think compiling is a good solution to go-with, except installing the package from repository. i have heard that people always suggest to install packages from repository not by compiling. i

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-31 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks all for all the detailed answers :) very helpful. On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu wrote: Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com writes: Thanks all , thanks for the detailed answer but do you think compiling is a good solution to go-with, except

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-30 Thread Artur Frydel
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: i normally install things from the repository of debian by apt-get install however just need to know if in case circumstances push me to compile things at some point.so the question that i am asking is just for

Re: make command understanding

2013-01-30 Thread berenger . morel
Le 31.01.2013 08:44, Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : i normally install things from the repository of debian by apt-get install however just need to know if in case circumstances push me to compile things at some point.so the question that i am asking is just for learning purpose. i have seen