[tomdkat]

If you have ever compiled a complete and working application from source, what did you compile? This should be for apps you use frequently and we can exclude system level builds, like the kernel, glibc, GLIB/GTK+, X, and so on.

The apps I've most recently built from source, that I use frequently, on my 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 system are:

• Gimp 2.6.3 (and some supporting libs, like GEGL)
• Pidgin (forget the version number)
• Apache 2.2.6
• PHP 5.2.5

In the past, I've built all kinds of stuff from source but haven't done so since installing Ubuntu.

As a side note, I've also built a gcc-4.3.2 based, 64-bit Linux hosted, 32-bit Windows targetted cross compiler that I haven't used since testing it out.

Peace...

[isaaclewis]

I compiled Qtel, an Echolink VoIP client from source. It still has a few bugs, but it is a working compilation.

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

If you have ever compiled a complete and working application from source, what did you compile?

There once was a lad named Paul
Whom everyone thought had one ball
Until one day
We heard from Fay
The poor boy had no balls at all

I just compiled that.

P.S. He did have a wagon with one wheel and a one legged chicken to play with

[lotuseclat79]

Hi tomdkat,

Today I finally cracked the tork barrier in its configure script, and managed to find information on the Internet from (header file name) clues in the configure script for missing header files and libraries. Specifically, I found information on which package was missing in terms of what other packages it depended upon.

The author of tork only gave unspecific information on installing all the kde packages that contained either kde and dev or kde and lib in the package name - lots of those, but only needed just the one over and above the ones I already figured out from multiple attempts (exercisizing configure) to build tork from just the Live CD Kubuntu 8.10 environment with 2GB RAM. Over 1/2 GB was left after the build worked.

Haven't tested it yet, but the build got a return code of zero, i.e. echo $? after the make command - so, today, I am happy to have accomplished this moderately difficult task - i.e. out-of-date (& missing) information on building tork with earlier releases of KDE environment (3.5.x). This was done in the KDE 4.1.2 Live CD Kubuntu 8.10 release for tork version 0.31 - have to check to see if the src was actually 0.31-1 for which a .deb file is available - which may have been the easier way to install tork on Kubuntu. Nope: the version.h file only mentions 0.31 - but that might just be an oversight.

One technique I used, was to installed synaptic with apt-get, and then using synaptic I looked at dependencies (Properties tab) of an available earlier version (0.29) and recorded them. Turned out the missing package was not mentioned and depended on a package that was installed.

-- Tom

P.S. I have posted the procedure to configure/compile/install tork in the KubuntuForums.net Software Support subforum How to configure/compile/install tork source code for KDE 4.1.2 Intrepid Ibex.