Hi Eric, Maybe I misunderstood the whole "rebuild" thing. You said: <Many applications can be built natively on Linux with little, or no, modification. In most cases, there is no reason to 'rebuild' an application.> Could you explain this more? Maybe this is what I was thinking of. Nick On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Eric F Crist <ecrist at secure-computing.net>wrote: > On Sep 30, 2008, at 8:13 PM, Nick Scholtes wrote: > > Hi, >> >> How do you re-build apps from source? I have heard that any software can >> run perfectly on Linux if you re-build it. How do I do this? Especially if >> it is closed-source software. I would like to re-build Lightwave 3D to run >> on Linux. (Actually, I have a number of graphics applications I use that I >> would like to re-build on Linux.) >> >> I have used Linux a lot, but am still very much a noob when it comes to >> the CLI and code. If someone could walk me through this (as in, baby steps) >> I would really appreciate it. I'll worship the open-source ground you walk >> on! ; ) >> > > > Many applications can be built natively on Linux with little, or no, > modification. In most cases, there is no reason to 'rebuild' an > application. Packaged binaries generally make use of needed features within > the kernel and system. Most people do not need to rebuild a program from > source. > > This is a deep hole... Don't dive in until you *need* to, and are ready. > --- > Eric Crist > > > > > -- Art: http://www.coroflot.com/bellsoffreedom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080930/5f347b96/attachment.htm