Worst than that, it didn't tell me to see config.log and it didn't
really say it didn't finish normally.

I would have been happier to see a:

The following errors were reported:
.
.
.
Please correct before continuing.

But I just had to guess.

When I get back to this, I plan on going to the manual and seeing what
prereqs were needed and verify that they are installed using Yast.
Then, things should be better.

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting

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In this sequence,  'configure' will often produce a log file.
I have recently found a number of packages that failed to config
where I got a message,  "see config.log"  to figure out what went
wrong.
I'd complain a lot less about that than about your bacula experience.
(Or did bacula config tell you to read the log?)

Mark Post will tell you,  rightly,  to use RPM or some other
package mangler for to get a proper audit trail.   Works even for
source packages in many cases.   The value is more significant for
big shops where someone else will have to pick up the pieces after
you've left.   My beef with RPM is two-fold:  1)  it fails on a number
of points of robustness  (so does SES/E or SMP/E or SAM,
InstallShield
behaves better than these!  I might contend that SMIT is better
still),
and  2)  it is less ubiquitous and less flexible than the above
"recipe".

-- R;

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