On Wednesday 06 April 2005 21:33, Marvin Dickens wrote: >On Wednesday 06 April 2005 21:37, Daniel Nilsson wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:27:15PM -0400, Marvin Dickens wrote: >> > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 18:53, Daniel Nilsson wrote: >> > > The individual pieces of software (pkg-config, autoconf etc) >> > > all have very detailed documentation but that typically not >> > > what the end user needs to know in order to compile from >> > > source. More of a hands on guide that ties it all together >> > > would probably help a lot to get people that wants to deal >> > > with source packages to get over the steep learning curve a >> > > little faster. >> > > >> > > Surely someone must have written one of these guides ? >> > >> > The first time I installed gEDA (Two years ago...?...) I had a >> > couple of problems with dependencies. The majority were related >> > to SuSE distro centric issues with required gEDA dependencies. >> > So, I fell back on what I knew would work: Install all >> > dependencies and Geda from source. I've been installing gEDA >> > from source ever since. My complaints regarding gEDA >> > dependencies are not related to dependency list as specified by >> > gEDA, but to the one thing every distro is guilty of: >> > Bastardizing libraries to fit market strategy de jour and/or >> > political statements. I say shame on the distro's (Commerical >> > and non-commerical alike). >> >> Marvin, >> >> This may sounds ignorant, but I don't know what you are referring >> to here. I used SuSE many years ago myself, but have settled on >> Debian so maybe I have different experience they you do... >> >> How is market strategy related to bastardizing libraries ? I'm not >> saying it's not related, I just don't understand how it's >> related... > >There are lots of examples. The one that most people can relate to >is this what both RedHat and SuSE did with CDRecord. Here is the >quote from the author of CDRecord's website: > >Both RedHat and SuSE publish bastardized and defective variants of > cdrtools in their distributions. If you have problems on RedHat or > SuSE systems, first fetch a recent original cdrtools source, > compile it yourself and run the original instead of broken > software that illegally claims to be cdrecord. > >The url for the above is: > >http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html > >Also, if you google "cd dvd burning problems linux" you >get literally thousand of hits related to the alteration. > >Regards > >Marvin
Thats another of the programs I make from tarballs. Using k3b also, all I can say is that it Just Works(TM). Just Works great that is. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
