Re: libpng library and headers

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> writes:

> Hi Marko,
>> it might be the easiest to create /usr/pkgsrc/riccardo/xyzprogram and
>> then to create a pkg there for the program you wish to install. While
>> getting a program to compile in the pkgsrc framework has some overhead
>> you save on some other tasks where pkgsrc just does the right
>> thing. The few times I have installed a program _not_ using pkgsrc, I
>> ended up regretting it later.
>>
>>    
> Well, you are right that it is usually convenient to build your
> own package and install it, however in my case I am a developer
> and i build and test several applications and libraries directly
> from CVS and SVN, thus using pkg is a bit impractical.

It isn't such a big deal to build package which extracts source from
CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, and even git. pkgsrc-wip provides necessary
support.


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