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Matt Patterson
Date:
August 30, 2001 02:32
Subject:
Re: JPEG, PerlMagick, GD.pm (was Re: Cocoa interfaces)
Message ID:
20010830100100-r01010800-dd0c25fc-0910-0108@10.0.0.15
On 28/8/01 at 11:15 pm, emoy@apple.com wrote:

> Anyways, to compile jpeg-6b, just:
> 
>   % cd /path/to/jpeg-6b-source
>   % cp /usr/libexec/config.* .
>   % ./configure
>   % make
> 
> The second line is the trick; this overwrites config.guess and 
> config.sub with versions that know about MacOSX (darwin).

Can I assume from this that to compile other things whose configure scripts
don't know about darwin I can do this, and if that's the only problem I'll be
fine...

(I'm thinking of the Gnome libXML and libXSLT here...)

Matt



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