Have you ever compiled the source code of an open source application?
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View Poll Results: Have you ever compiled the source code of an open source application?
I usually do it if the application I need is not in Slackbuilds.org, or if its version in very old.
I remember now any of them: amule (last version), some libraries, even I compiled libreoffice (last version too).
I compiled my own kernel once a time for slack (in order to learning, whit a pretty kernel panic in my first attemp), and I used Gentoo Linux for a couple of months, all compiled by yourself, as you know (another good way to learn to me).
I only think I hope nothing breaks during the process, because I don't know who to resolve the issue.
Yes, several times ... including in the past various scientific s/w on an institute server (there should be e-mail's from 1990 from me somewhere on the net). Among the stuff I do sort of regularly at a new system installation (which I do seldom, every 5 years or so) there is the Alpine mail user agent, the Hessling editor (THE) and related libraries, and GDL, the "GNU data language", a clone of IDL.
In general I prefer if I find an already compiled binary for my distro (opensuse), but if there isn't or the bundled one does not satisfy me, I rebuild. For instance for Alpine I want the "all-patch" version (with user defined keys for instance) which is not usually bundled, and for THE I want the Xcurses version and not the plain terminal one.
Last edited by Lucio Chiappetti; 11-07-2019 at 03:35 AM.
I went through a period, when I started using slackware, when I used to compile the kernel, from kernel.org , in order to keep it updated . It would take me hours to read the documentation alone. Then I descovered slackpkg and found that I could update my entire system in less time than it took to compile the kernel.
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i did compile for example conky with nvidia support which were unavailable from repository of my distro.
and i have compiled numerous progs (honeypots and etc).
ReZound (http://rezound.sourceforge.net/) and Jubler (https://www.jubler.org/). The former for sound file creation, conversion and editing and the latter for subtitling videos. Some others also, but these are the ones I have enjoyed the most.
Yes. I compile a lot of the source code I get from open source applications because I am usually adapting it for my own applications. Also, many times the open source app does not just plug in and work for one reason or another, and I have to compile, debug and recompile it several times just to get it to run on my system.
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