[olug] Compiling for your PC

[Eric Penne]

>From what I can tell of the configure scripts and the Makefile in the
source directory it pulls the architecture by doing a uname -m or
/bin/arch.  In my case it says i686 but when I actually compile the
program it compiles for i386 which is states right at the beginning of the
 dh-buildsomethingorother command.   The dh-whatever command is called by
apt-get source --build Package.

I got it to successfully compile Kino last night and the .deb successfully
installed.  I would still like to know how to pass the i486 or i586
argument to the configure script through the apt-get command.

I assume this can be done for things like apache and that many people do
it but I for the life of me can't find anything on google that gives a
hint.

Eric

> On Tue, 06 May 2003 22:24:32 -0500
> Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
>
> | > Is it possible to use APT to download the source, compile, then | >
> install all in one step?  I know people like Gentoo but I don't want | >
> to jump head first into fast flowing currents. :)  I just want to dip |
>> my toes in.
> |
> |Unfortunately not right off hand.  APT is not for people who like to
> |compile stuff :)
>
> Sometimes true, I do like the fact that I can apt-get pkgname and have
> that installed and running in a minute or so tops.  Waiting for it to
> compile and all (gentoo emerge), might make me a little impatient... for
> example I apt-get'd KDE 3.1.1 with everything in about 8 minutes.
>
> that other info you found...
> apt-get build-dep openoffice.org
> apt-get source --build openoffice.org
>
> was what I was thinking, I'd like to try that someday, never really
> have.  But yeah, I'm not sure how you would pass compiler options (i486)
> and optimizations to the apt process though.  Wouldn't that normally be
> down in a ./configure script?
>
> peace
>
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