On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:57:05 -0400, John Wildberger <wildberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 11 October 2004 07:17 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > > > I think that the question being asked is not so much which file you're > > referring to, but rather, why are you using the source tarball rather > > > > than the Mandrake RPM found on the full display of the Sourceforge page. > > No, this was not the question. > But to answer your implied question I quote from the Wine User Guide: > quote: > "To summarize, the "best" way to install Wine is to download Wine source > code" > " About binary package files: There's about a zillion reasons to not like > them as much as you'd think: they may be outdated, they may not include > "everything", they are not optimized for your particular environment (as > opposed to a source compile, which would guess and set everything based on > your system), they frequently fail to provide a completely configured Wine > environment. " > end quote. > You might not agree with these quotes, but they are read by new users and are > taken seriously. > I personally don't take them seriously, but am sufficiently curious to find > out first hand by trying to install from source. > > > The page section you linked to shows only the source tarballs; notice > > the "show only this package" in the section copy below? The link you > > gave is the "show only this package" link for the source tarballs. > > > I simply answered the question: > "Could you indicate which page on winehq this came from?' > > > There is presumably a reason that the Wine project has compiled binaries > > for all the major distributions, and the fact that they have gone to > > that extra effort suggests that you would probably have better results > > from the binaries for your distribution, rather than compiling from > > source yourself. > See above quotes. > John > > > > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > I personaly favor source over prebuilt, but i run slackware .. I havnt a clue why config isnt guessin your arch, but usually when i get a config.h error, it has something to do with kernel headers or glib . This is just me and adding my 2 cents in , it migh help out.. If you could copy and paste your whole error or send it to my email and i could take a look .. Cant promise anything, been i had alot of probs with mandrake .. good luck -- Support Free Speach , DROP AN ELBOW!! (v)3TH _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
