Re: Compiling gtk

[tom <tom@mail.osageinc.com>]

Thanks for the advice. Turns out that the install is working fine. I 
received your note after I did it by hand. I will use your approach on 
my next software install. I also need to know more about how  the 
debian rules etc. work. It is still an unpredictable black box to me.

Tom

On 2003.03.04 03:33 Amaya wrote:
> tom dijo:
> > The only reason is that I need to learn more about the technical
> side
> > of Linux. This is a good way to do it....
>
> I think you'd learn more if you downloaded source .debs and took a
> look
> at the debian/rules files, noticing changes mantainers made, and
> considering why.
>
> Anyway, instead of installing Xfree86 from tgz binaries, using debs
> would save you a lot of trouble, whatever you are compiling. It's the
> same thing, only you take advantage of having Xfree in the database of
> installed packages, and you make sure it gets installed at the right
> place.
>
> If you take my .2¢ of €, install Xfree from .debs, then build Gnome
> from
> scratch, using the "apt-get source $package" tool.
>
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