[Pdns-users] Building the latest version from source...

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:50 PM +0200 2005-09-10, bert hubert wrote:

>  Snapshots only need an invocation of ./configure, taking care to pass the
>  proper CXXFLAGS to find Boost.

	Cool.

>  To be brutally honest, I consider the Modula3 dependency and onwards to be
>  a FreeBSD issue.

	Absolutely.  This has been a known issue for a long time with 
FreeBSD.  I'm sorry if I sounded like I was blaming you for this.  My 
intention was to simply use this as an example of how depending on 
one thing can bring in some other things which might be quite a bit 
larger than otherwise expected.

>                    Subversion does bring in a heap of dependencies but it has
>  grown to be a staple of open source software, lots of projects have shifted
>  to it.

	Also true, but for those people who want to build from the 
absolute latest in the source tree, if they don't already have 
Subversion installed, then this would still be an issue for them. 
Admittedly, this should be a small group of people, but it's still 
something to be aware of.

>  When choosing dependencies, I try not to go for out of the way stuff.

	Much appreciated.  Thanks!

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