Re: Idea: a gui for automatic ./configure && make

[Abel Cheung <abelcheung gmail com>]

On 12/23/05, Paraplegic Racehorse <paraplegic_racehorse myrealbox com> wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be fantastic if you'd be able to use your distribution's
> > package manager, or some similar system like AutoPackage etc?
> >
> > Installing lots of things from source is not always healthy for a system
> > (can and will confuse your package manager), so I don't think it's a
> > good idea to "make it easy" for end-users to do this.
>
> Try CheckInstall + kConfigure. It's not a GNOME combination, one being a
> CLI-only tool and the other being a KDE tool, but it works really well.

Alternatively, there is GNU source installer too:
http://www.gnu.org/software/sourceinstall/sourceinstall.html

Though I haven't tried it yet.

Abel

>
> CheckInstall - http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
> kConfigure   - http://kconfigure.sourceforge.net/
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