Mark Post wrote:
On 8/28/2009 at 4:05 PM, Jack Woehr <[email protected]> wrote:
No one actually does this in the "real" open source Unix world.
I do. It's not all that hard, once you accept the idea that you're now a Linux
developer, not a Linux user. That means installing a lot of packages you might
not normally have, among other things.
Well, I've done it too, literally hundreds of times, probably thousands.
Must be over a thousand.
But that was mostly in the 1990's and early 2000's, that manual download
of the dependencies.
No civilized operating system requires that any more in the Open Source
world.
for the learning experience or a personal kinkiness :)
There's a "ports" kinda thingy for Ubuntu Linux. 'ports' itself should
be ported to the
Linux on z. That will build Subversion and all the dependencies. If you
really feel
compelled to learn more, redirect, capture and read the output of the build.
Honestly, it' s been at least 6 years since most Linux/Solaris/BSD
developers gave up downloading
manually and building manually huge Open Source dependency chains.
*It's not an economic use of
one's time* now that porting is automated.
--
Jack J. Woehr # «'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find
http://www.well.com/~jax # a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or
http://www.softwoehr.com # a worm.'» - Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_
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