Re: [RFC] Package build time config for installation directories.
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:26:56PM +0100, Nils Lohner wrote:
>
> Ben-
> There's only one thing that I would like to see, and that's to facilitate
> compiling and installing native packages on other systems.
>
> I currently work on solaris and since I use a lot of GNU tools I currently
> download all packages that can handle
> ./configure --prefix=/sup;make;make install
> and they'll just work.
>
> So I guess the system needs to support functionality that I can use
> the .orig.tgz files (no debianization) because then I can just apt-get
> source and build and have it work, meaning I can automize a dir with non-
> standard stuff on solaris. This would also make the system completely
> non-debian dependent (i.e. people can use it on hp-ux for maintaining a GNU
> tools tree in /opt by downloading, compiling and installing sources for
> example) and allow for a lot of flexibility.
But if you have apt available, why not use the debianization? :)
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