[PLUG] C programming

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Young <danielmyoung at gmail.com> writes:

>> Wonder why folks fear and avoid the 'configure; make; make install'
>> dance.

Dan> I don't fear 'make install', but I sure appreciate the lowered
Dan> barrier to entry to trying new software provided by package
Dan> management that lets me trivially remove it.

I sometimes do 'configure --prefix=/packages/foo ; make ; make
install', then I can trivially remove it with: 'rm -rf /packages/foo'


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