On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:36:54AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Looks about right to me, although you want 'apt-get build-dep' in the > former case too. You need to get build-dependencies as root, while > everything else can be done as an ordinary user. > > Actually, there's a note in the FAQ about doing this kind of thing, > although it's at a lower level then either of these two (Debian has lots > of different ways to do some things, mostly because people got > dissatisfied with the interfaces presented by the existing tools and > decided they wanted to write some wrappers to make things easier). It's > here: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.html#s-sourcebuild > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a related question. Does building your own packages actually result in a speedup? For e.g., how much of a speedup is achieved in compiling Mozilla for your particular architecture? What sort of optimizations are needed for this? Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
