Building software from source
Kenneth Porter
shiva at sewingwitch.com
Mon Sep 12 16:58:11 UTC 2005
--On Monday, September 12, 2005 5:18 PM +0200 Alexander Dalloz
<ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> If you ask me: use Fedora RPMs (Core, Extras, livna, etc.) wherever you
> can and avoid compiling yourself. What do you gain by compiling PHP
> yourself?
In most cases the RPM's are built with reasonable settings, but sometimes
one wants something non-standard. In that case, download the source RPM,
which contains the original sources used to create the binary RPM, tweak it
to your desired settings, and rebuild. http://www.rpm.org/ for more info.
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