On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 05:33:51PM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 16:14, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:29:33PM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote: > > > I have a Debian woody computer with exim and qpopper. They work well > > > using starttls. Now I want to experiment with imap using imp/horde. So I > > > installed Cyrus-imapd using apt and libc-client2001 using apt and Mysql > > > from source. I downloaded PHP4.3.1 and Apache 1.3.27 which I want to > > > compile from source. > > > > How come? > > I'm new to apt-get. I like downloading the source from the source and > compiling it. I like knowing what options are used to compile. I'm > having a hell of a time with this php-imap because first php4.3.1 > doesn't find the c-client libraries even though I enter the correct > prefix and the libraries are there, then I find out kerberos has been > compiled into c-client and I don't want Kerberos. Having control over > our servers is important. I don't mind relinquishing some of that > control for the base system esp because I know Debian does a great job > with that and it will save plenty time and aggravation. But as for > mission critical apps, I want the source installed exactly the way I > want it. I realize that I can do this with apt-get but it seems like > more work to learn apt-get to compile from deb-source than to simply > download and compile from original source. Well, 90% of the time, it's actually simpler. e.g. 1) setup deb-src lines in your sources.list (you only need to do this once, ever) 2) apt-get source packagename;apt-get build-dep packagename. This will download the source, untar it and patch it, then go get everything you need to build it (avoiding the libc-client2001 issue you're having). 3) Edit debian/rules to change the './configure' line to only include modules that you want. 4) debuild. This builds the source and packages it. 5) install the resulting deb with dpkg. 6) Profit! Total human interaction time: 2 minutes. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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