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Subject: Re: CKermit 6.1beta rpm?
Date: 25 Oct 1998 20:41:18 GMT
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In article <70pvt4$32q$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu says...
>
>In article <70ol1d$1el$1@samba.rahul.net>, <dold@network.rahul.net> wrote:
>: Frank da Cruz (fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
>:
>: : I already know it is OK on Red Hat 5.1 (PC and Alpha), and on the Amiga
>: : (Red Hat 5.0).
>:
>: Gee, Frank, I realize I'm not very good at building C-Kermit, but it
failed
>: miserably on my out-of-the-box RedHat 5.1 on a PC.
>:
>: (I suppose now I'll be forced to try again, and forward some logs)
>:
>Please do! The only way I can get it right is if I get reports back about
>every platform during the testing phase. Of course it is discouraging that
>one user reports success with RH 5.1 and another reports failure.
>
>Speculation: I've had reports that RH 5.1 installation gives you the choice
>about which pieces of the development environment to install, and have
>encountered at least one example where the curses (aptly named!) material
>was just simply missing, even though cc and make were installed, because
the
>user answered "no" to some question.
>
>It sounds like there is going to be a whole new universe of problems to
>cope with. Personally, I think it's nuts to deploy UNIX systems without a
>complete development environment. This is what, historically, has
>distinguished UNIX from most other platforms, and it is the primary reason
>for its success. It should be a given that programs should be buildable
>from source code on any UNIX system.
I bet you're right, since I've done this on my RedHat system. I don't really
build programs that run under X-Windows for instance, so I didn't install
the X-Windows developmental stuff when I first installed Linux, since I
could always go back and install it later via RPM's if I decided that I
really did needed it.
Is this a good or bad thing? Depends. If you think you're never really going
to compile X-Windows stuff, is it really a wise idea to install software you
very well may never use taking up disk space?
Shrug. It's a two-edged sword.