Learning to compile things from source (on Unix/Linux/OSX) - Server Fault
11 vote down star 16 While I install software from packages (MacPorts / apt-get) where-ever possible, I often find myself needing to compile packages from source. ./configure && make && sudo make install is usually enough, but sometimes it doesn’t work - and when it doesn’t, I frequently get stuck. This almost always relates to other library dependencies in some way.
