On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 02:10:46PM -0500, David Nesting wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 02:03:04AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> |
> | I see you post regularly with problems compiling the ax25 utilities.
> | They run out of the box on Debian. If you want to make life hard for
> | yourself I'm not going to stop you Karl!
>
> These utilities also run out of the box under Redhat (or, at
> least, they did for me). Distributions SHOULDN'T make much of
> a difference in this respect. Kernel versions do.
>
> It's the difference between finding the RPM binaries and trying
> to download and compile source code (that may be obsolete or
> meant for a different set of libraries).
>
> Before you start going on compiling sprees, I'd suggest people
> take a look at http://www.rpmfind.net for binary versions of
> your packages.
That's excellent advice. Precompiled binaries save everyone a lot of
trouble.
Hamish
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