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1. _white+p2
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2024-01-22 19:56:15
>>mroche+(OP)
I feel like such a greybeard now... I remember when source code was the
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way to get software. A pre-built binary? Luxury!
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2. dunham+Qa
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2024-01-22 20:36:21
>>_white+p2
And it often involved a hard-fought battle with the internals of a configure script.
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3. kwhite+Lz
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2024-01-22 22:45:59
>>dunham+Qa
A proper configure script should do all that battling for you. At least it did when I needed Emacs on a Dec Alpha machine. I just did ./configure, make, and make install and everything worked.
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