> B> Lately i've been compiling more and more things from cvs to get the > B> most up to date versions, but not being familar with the compiling > B> process i sometimes have no clue what to do. > > This is probably a bad idea, then. Developers tend to use CVS as a > place to store the absolutely-most-recent working copy of their code, > along with every version before it. This means that there's no > guarantee that the code in CVS works properly, much less even > compiles.
perhaps, but i don't mind learning the hard way. > B> i'm trying to compile konverse from cvs, how would i usually go about > this B> when there's no configure script, > > Yup. Storing generated files (like configure) in CVS is generally a > poor idea, since they can vary greatly between build machines and > versions of unrelated software. thank you for being completely unhelpful ;) Brendon
