June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1560 pages
45h 7m
English
Sometimes when you try to compile and install a program, it won't work as easily as the examples at the beginning of this chapter. Sometimes it's a matter of the program not being tweaked to run properly on Mac OS X. Sometimes the program is just poorly written. Most often, however, it's because the vast majority of software written for Unix is in a constant state of revision, and minor bugs are introduced, squashed, and often re-created again in some other subroutine, on a regular basis. If you're in no hurry to use the software, don't worry that it doesn't compile. As long as you've obeyed the mantra Never compile or install software as a user with a privileged account ...
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