On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Thomas Olenio wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed disk sets A and AP of slackware, and I
> have a question. Which set contains the 'make' and
> 'install' so that I can install filename.tar.gz compressed
> files?
install is a symbolic link to ginstall, in the bin package that you
already installed in the A set. make is in package gmake, which is in
D.
But it ain't necessarily that simple :-). You can install binaaary
tar.gz packages with just tar. (OR pkgtool, which is just a wrapper for
tar). If you look inside the slackware packages, you will see a bunch
of .tgz files (.tgz is what a .tar.gz calls itself when it thinks it
might have to pass through a dos filesystem.)
Source packages have to be compiled and linked.
>
> Secondly, would I need the entire disk set, or just
> particular packages from the set?
>
Basically you need the entire D set. Source packages are generally
developed on systems with a full set of program development tools.
Programmers being lazy cusses, if it's easier to use yacc to generate
some of the code, they will feel free to do so, and expect you to have
it (or bison -y) on your system, too. Of course, you need gcc, and
binutils. And all the library header files. make is basically just
(just, he says :-) a programmable wrapper for the other program
development tools, primarily gcc and ld, but the others as well).
> I am assuming that after uncompressing using tar, I would
> run make and make install on the new package. Is this a
> correct assumption for Slackware?
>
The first thing you want to do after uncompressing a tar, is look in the
directory where you have put it, and see if you can see a README file,
or an INSTALL file, or a readme... or something to tell you what you
need and how to go about building the package. The package developer(s)
want you to succeed at building it, they'll tell you what they think you
might need to know, but you've gotta listen. :-)
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
HTH
Lawson
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