Re: Order out of Chaos

The Amazing Woolloomooloosers (piers@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Wed, 23 Aug 1995 14:40:04 +1000 (EST)

On Sun, 13 Aug 1995, Dennis Clark wrote:

> In previous mail, Matt Estela wrote:
> >
> > As usual, my question is HOW? Obviously this isn't covered in TFM (yet;
> > idea for TFM 96 perhaps?), and its not the sort of thing you can ask the
>
> A new section on compiling programs for TFM '96! GOOD IDEA! Its
> something we probably should've done a long time ago. I'm sure there
> are some of us out there saying to themselves, "Its easy, just unpack,
> configure and make!" but its not as simple as that until you get used to
> it. Some of the things which useful to know when compiling distributed
> software are (other than unpacking them of course):

Can someone write this? It would make TFM96 a much more attractive purchase.

He is so dark and moody / She is the sunshine girl - St Etienne
Piers