Alberto Maurizi wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:07:51PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > Greg Folkert wrote:
> >
> > >Thereby screwing up your deps. There is no reason to compile Exim
> 4.30 > >on a debian machine.
> >
> > Why are so many debian users so scared of something as simple as >
> compiling exim?
> >
> > You really want to try slackware instead. Or any other distro that >
> doesn't make people so utterly dependent on a packaging system, and >
> completely scared of compiling their own versions of anything. >
>
> Sometimes there are reasons to compile packagese, also on debian
> machines!
>
> However, compiling and installing a package under debian is as
> simple as installing binaries without breaking the whole
> installation system (very powerful indeed).
>
Whatever happened to ./configure ;make ;make install???? :)
>
> See
> apt-get -b source ....
> apt-get build-dep ...
> dpkg-buildpackage -b
> and the new
> apt-build
>
> Cheers,
> a.
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