Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From:	Barry.SCHWARTZ@×××××××××××××.org
To:	gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-amd64] wanted: script to build ebuilds
Date:	Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:47:11
Message-Id:	`20060428124523.GA16541@crud.crud.mn.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-amd64] wanted: script to build ebuilds by Steve Herber

1	Steve Herber <herber@×××××.com> wrote:
2	> Other times I will hear about a new software package and I want to try
3	> it out. I would like a script that would take a URL for the home site
4	> as an argument and then would operate like the script above.
5
6	I suggest as an alternative that the script download the tarball and
7	then do something more like
8
9	./configure --prefix="${HOME}" && make && make install
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