./configure variations

[Vram]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:55 -0500, Zach wrote:
> configure scripts are unique to the source code that they come with. 
> As such there's no way to document how to make them work in any
> general, yet useful way.
> 
> If  you untarred the source, and the README says to run the configure
> script, yet the configure script isn't working, then it is broken.  I
> know this seems obvious, but my point is that there's no documentation
> that will tell you what your'e doing wrong, because you aren't doing
> anything wrong.  It's just broken.
> 
> If this is the case, then fixing it requires some understanding of
> shell scripts, so that you can look at the output to see where it's
> failing then edit the configure script to fix the broken part.
> 
> Here are a couple of suggestions.
> 
> Post the output from the configure script to the list, and maybe
> somebody can make sense of where it's breaking.
> 
> See if somebody has packaged the program you want already by googling
> for "<program name> deb", or "<program name> rpm".  If you find an rpm
> of the program you need you might be able to use alien to convert it
> to a deb.
> 
> If you do get the program to compile, consider using the
> "checkinstall" utility, in place of the "make install" step.  This
> will generate a package that can then be easily installed or removed. 
> Read up on checkinstall first.  Installing stuff from source is a sure
> way to wind up with an unmaintainable system.
> 
> On 11/8/05, alex <radsky at ncia.net> wrote:
> > August Karlstrom wrote:
> >
> > > Matt Galvin wrote:
> > >
> > >> In most cases the software you are looking for is probably already
> > >> availible in Ubuntu without having to compile anything.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, but my impression is that the available precompiled versions
> > > quite often are not up to date (sometimes *very* out of date, like
> > > several years).
> > >
> > >
> > > August
> > >
> > Yes, this is why I was trying to install Prozilla-2.0-CVS-19-2005 via
> > the tarball route. I wasn't able to find it any other way.
> >
> > alex


I just did an 

apt-cache search prozilla  and got a hit...

What's wrong with that one..

TIA

Vram