I was wondering: when installing something, there’s an easy way of double clicking an install executable file, and on the other hand, there is a way of building it from source.
This is an issue that really limits my enjoyment of Linux. If the application isn’t on a repository or if it doesn’t have an installer script, then I really struggle where and how to install an application from source.
This is about files straight from the compiler, say g++, and the -o (outfile) flag.
So I was surfing the net and stumbled upon this article. It basically states that FreeBSD, starting from Version 10 and above will deprecate GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM.
Will the executable of a small, extremely simple program, such as the one shown below, that is compiled on one flavor of Linux run on a different flavor? Or would it need to be recompiled?
Maybe there are some compatibility issues?
When installing something from source (say, Ruby 1.9.2), what command can I run to get a complete list of all the dependencies needed to install that application? Is this possible?
If I’m installing from source, do I need to keep the extracted tarball directory? So if I download the git tarball. I then do:
I wish to install OpenVPN on OpenBSD 5.5 using OpenVPN source tarball.