I remember someone pointing to a good paper on general compiling of code, specifically i would like to start compiling more unix tools on os x... any os x specific help would be appreciated, mostly i'm looking for that link, or any links.
Most of what you need to know is in the README file. Go hit google and search for this topic. I'm sure there's lots of pages on the Linux side that will get you 99% of the way there.
Yea, I've had to compile a lot of stuff for BeOS PPC so I have limited knowledge. Now I just give it to my younger brother to do. he's more of the programmer type
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In best-case scenarios, all you have to do is run ./configure or ./make and you're done.
./configure
./make
./make install
Do the trick. In fact, I wrote a bash script to do it for me, because it gets kind of repetitive.
./configure --help will usually list configure options you may want to enable.