OK, I must join this flamewar:
Until recently I was a slackware user, and I also wondered along the
lines of "why is it that you Red Hat people are so dependent upon RPMs?"
But lately, I did not manage to install glibc2, so I decided to install
Mandrake 6.0. And now, I know that rpms are a lot more convenient than
source tarballs. I still prefer to download source tarballs, to have the
more options (either compile time, or in changing the code), but I
understand why many people prefer packages.
About creating packages for every release, making an rpm is probably not
hard, using a ready made spec file, it will be no more than adding one
line to my pre-release.sh script. I choose not to do it, since if I make
an rpm, why not debian package and a slackware package etc.
Tony Nugent wrote that svgalib has installation problems from the
source. As far as I know that is not the case. make installsharedlib
should work on a clean system (with no svgalib), and should only create
2 files (and 4 symlinks to them) at /lib/libvga*. If you try and it does
not work, please send to me a bug report.
If you already have svgalib installed from distribution, you should
probably also rm /usr/lib/libvga*, and if you want to compile svgalib
programs as well, make instllheaders is also needed.
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Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
