Am Mo, den 12.09.2005 schrieb Matthias Bauw um 16:23: No HTML formatted mails to this list please. > I have some question about building software though? How can I update > software that I have built from source? > Do I just download new source and build the new version? Will the old > one disappear then? If you install the new version over the old one, the old version will be overridden. If you compile yourself you have to care for target locations yourself. Maybe the old source support a "make uninstall" procedure. > And what if you want to add configuration options afterwards? For > example, have have built PHP from source without > GD, and now I would like to use it. What do I do? You need to completely recompile PHP. > Matt. If you ask me: use Fedora RPMs (Core, Extras, livna, etc.) wherever you can and avoid compiling yourself. What do you gain by compiling PHP yourself? Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 17:14:26 up 21 days, 13:58, load average: 0.30, 0.41, 0.36
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