On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
I found that compiling the zeroc-ice package (on Debian-based distros), which is huge, very reliably results in random crashes and aborts when relevant hardware is dying.
# apt-get source zeroc-ice # cd zeroc-ice-?.?.? # make *blam*
Just to mention a few of my favorite commands in Debianland:
$ apt-get -b source zeroc-ice
That does the same with fewer commands. And if you have the apt-src package:
$ apt-src -b install zeroc-ice
does the same *plus* installs zeroc-ice's build-dependencies!
(in apt-src teminology, it "installs" the source package to the current directory (meaning, it downloads and unpacks the source), and then "-b"uilds it. The above invocation will not actually install the package.
-- Asheesh.
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