Re: gEDA-user: 20050329 install problem

[Daniel Nilsson <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:13:45AM -0400, Marvin Dickens wrote:
> Thing is, I like to install from source. So, regardless if the distro
> uses apt, rpm or whatever, I'm still hoarked - RPM and apt only know 
> about their packages and have no knowledge of things installed from source.
> Even Gentoo is clueless regarding source installations. As for the NFS thing,
> I agree that that would be nightmare mode.

I think what is needed to help people install from source is a fairly
indepth guide that explains how all the related tools interact and how
things are supposed to work. That is, what environment variables
effect how configure find libraries and how configure interacts
with pkg-config etc. Surely someone must have written one of these, I
just haven't found a good one. For me it was pretty tedious and steep
learning curve to figure all of this out, but now that I know it it
all makes sense.

The individual pieces of software (pkg-config, autoconf etc) all have
very detailed documentation but that typically not what the end user
needs to know in order to compile from source. More of a hands on
guide that ties it all together would probably help a lot to get
people that wants to deal with source packages to get over the steep
learning curve a little faster.

Surely someone must have written one of these guides ?

-- 
Daniel Nilsson