Compiling xfce 4.6.2

[John Culleton]

On Tuesday 08 June 2010 02:32:41 Derick Centeno wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 18:46:37 -0500
>
> Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 19:40:20 -0400
> >
> > John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> > > I am familiar with the "unzip ./configure make make install"
> > > sequence for most source software. But xfce has me 
baffled. I
> > > downloaded the bzip2 version, ran bunzip2 and found a 
baker's
> > > dozen of additional bzip2 files in ./src. I don't find any 
configure
> > > or cmake or any other aids to compilation. How does one 
go about
> > > upgrading on a typical Linux system (Slackware 13.0)?
> >
> > I've got packages and sources here: 
http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/
> >
> > -RW
>
> You really don't need anything more elegant than tar to open 
bz2
> and other compressed files.  Here's my own short list:
>
> Note: x= any filename:
>
> Opening x.tar.bz2
> tar xjvf x.tar.bz2
>
> Opening x.tar.gz files:
> tar xzvf x.tar.gz
>
> Opening x.gz files:
> Step 1: gunzip x.gz
> Step 2: tar xvf x
>
> Opening .tar files:
> tar xvf x.tar
>

I have been opening gzipped tar files for a long time now. The 
problem is not unzipping and untarring the files but manipulating 
the results. Most software packages have a make file or a 
./configure file (to create a make file), or the cmake contraption.
XFCE has a bakers dozen of individual components  in their own 
bzipped files and no global way to compile the whole mess with a 
single command.  

-- 
John Culleton
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