On Saturday, 14 September 2013 at 05:54:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:28:03 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> wrote:
On Windows, when
installing stuff I used to always get messages like "this
installer
wants to overwrite the file C:\\windows\system\asdf1234.dll,
proceed
(y/n)?" -- which totally freaks me out.
I use windows basically every day, and I haven't seen that
happen since
the 90's.
1
Building from source, OTOH, tends to work pretty well, if you
can get
the thing to compile at all. (Thanks to apt-get, this is
relatively
painless nowadays, once you figure out which libraries are
needed...
That last part is the real problem though. Typing "wget
http://blahblah && unzip blahblah && cd blahblah && ./configure
&& make
&& make install" may be easy(-ish), but not when you're
collecting all
the libs (or worse: non-lib dependencies, which then leads you
into
recursion), and the right versions of all, until the
sllloooowwww ./configure or make process finally quits bitching
about
shit.
2
2 is just as true as 1.
