On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 01:04 -0700, stuporglue wrote: > I've been installing quite a few things from source (or at least > trying to) on my Mac as I try to build the dependencies for GRAMPS. > Every time I want to build of course, I run > > ./configure > make > make install > > The configures check many of the same things. Is there a convenient > way to set a variable somewhere saying what the max argument length > is, and if we're using the Fortran compiler, and a bunch of the other > thinks it checks for? It would greatly reduce the time I sit waiting!
No, there isn't any way with the current autoconf system to globally cache configuration variables. Rather than compile everything from source yourself, which will get messy, install fink and use fink. Set fink to use unstable, then (since gramps is not yet in stable), do "fink install gramps" and then a few hours later all dependencies will be built and ready to go. I'm working on this right now. Almost have it, except I appear to be missing freetype.h (no idea why; this is a system header file). I've also compiled gnome 2.6 and KDE 3.2 (complete) using fink. Takes a while, but at least fink automates it. Where there are no binary packages available, fink works a bit like gentoo or portage, compiling everything from source (with patches). Nice Michael > > Thanks, > Michael > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
