On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:03 PM, S. Senthil Anand <senthils@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
Hello,Gooood info Senthil, but similar issue i came across few days back about
Mm, Not necessarily a distro Project, also any such open-source projectlike
that
provide good documentation on compilation's steps with appropriate
parameters, etc.
Have any one tried compiling popular open source projects from source
Firefox, etc.
Not a hard job. Dependencies can be a pain.
You can also try pkgsrc which is NetBSD's answer for cross platform OS
agnostic package building. You can find all the configuration flags of an
application in the corresponding pkgsrc makefiles. I have personally used
it in various Linux distros, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD at
various times mainly to benchmark stuff.