Wrote Thomas Ribbrock Design/DEG" on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 02:53:28PM +0000:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 11:48:22AM +1100, Chuck Dale wrote:
> > But have you noticed that it is not RPM which is doing any of the
> > compiling of the source code? Ok so it runs configure and make for you
> > but that is about it. It doesn't do any checking on your system to find
> > dependies as the original poster was saying configure does.
>
> Errrm, there seem to be slight mix-ups around... :-)
[explanation of RPM..]
I'm sorry that was a rather crude generalisation about what RPM does but
I was making the point that RPM simply automates the configuration and
compilation process, rather than being a tool similar to configure which
the previous author was equating it with. Obviously not all packages are
autoconf'd.
Chuck
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