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howtos:slackware_admin:building_a_package [2021/08/21 11:12 (UTC)] – [Specific tweaks] zeebrahowtos:slackware_admin:building_a_package [2023/12/14 11:39 (UTC)] – mozes
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 Configure and compile the source as you usually do: Configure and compile the source as you usually do:
-<code>./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc+<code>./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc
 make</code> make</code>
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 +<note important>For 32bit systems, adjust the library directory location: --libdir=/usr/lib</note>
  
 Make a temporary destination directory available: Make a temporary destination directory available:
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-**Perl info**: perl packages comes with /usr/lib64/perl5/perllocal.pod and you probably don't want to overwrite the local version. Instead you could move the file to your package root/tmp and use the doinst.sh to append the new information to the old with something like "( cat /tmp/perllocal.pod >> /usr/lib64/perl5/perllocal.pod )".+**Perl info**: perl packages comes with /usr/lib64/perl5/perllocal.pod and you probably don't want to overwrite the local version. Instead you could move the file to your package root/tmp and use the doinst.sh to append the new information to the old with something like <code>( cat /tmp/perllocal.pod >> /usr/lib64/perl5/perllocal.pod )</code>.
  
  

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