Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:
>
>
>>But it can not become that if you expect users to build anything from
>>source. We at MySQL have learned that lesson 3 - 4 years ago.
>>
--snip--
>
> The GNU ./configure; make; make install is very good, but
> for anybody even that is too difficult I guess. But a simple
> graphical wraparound of the process should be easy to do.
> (I have planned to do a GUI configure package installer,
> although I have left it at the planning stage so far)
>
check out kconfigure. Just a frienly face to the above process. Also,
checkinstall, which replaces "make install" with "checkinstall" -- the
result is an rpm.
Find these utilities with google: no time to search now. (I'm moving so
I'll be offline for a while now.)
--
| Juha Siltala | Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Maahisentie 2K A8 | Tel : +358 8 554 3591 |
| 90550 Oulu, Finland | GSM : +358 40 718 4743 |