
However, makepkg needs to be completely autonomous, with no user input. In some really bad cases, you have to edit the source files to get it to work at all. You will have to do quite a bit of research (read READMEs, INSTALL instructions, man pages, perhaps ebuilds from Gentoo or other package installers, possibly even the MAKEFILEs or source code) to get it working.

In a few cases, the packages are not even available as source and you have to use something like sh n to get it to work.There is not any magic pixie dust in makepkg that makes source problems go away. Rule of thumb: If you cannot get the program to compile from the source tarball, and make it install itself to a defined, temporary subdirectory, you do not even need to try packaging it.

configure make make install', this is not always the case, and things can get real ugly if you have to apply patches to make everything work at all. Unfortunately, although a good bunch of program authors stick to the 3-step build cycle of '.

To download the product you want for free, you should use the link provided below and proceed to the developer's website, as this is the only legal source to get Package Maker 2008. Downloading Package Maker 2008 Free Thank you for using our software library. If so post it in a more detailed version on SO. For postprocessing files I suggest put them all into a pkg and set that pkg install location to /tmp.
