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On 07/10/15 18:03, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Has anyone been successful in building it from source code?
>> Last time I tried, build failed because it required versions
>> of packages that were of much older vintage than what was installed.
>> Too many for me to recall.
>>
>> Need helpful hints, how-to's to accomplish this.
> Use the port? I always build it through the port.
>
>> I posted the same question to Fedora list and it has been
>> so totally ignored, that I find it very interesting.
> Does Fedora have a ports system?


Not as such, no machinery dedicated to building from source, just make, 
autoconfig, etc. ....

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