Build-From-Source Lab

The first step of this lab was to install Development Tools and Development Libraries using yum.

$ yum groupinstall "Develeopment Tools" "Development Libraries"

I chose two packages that I can test at this site. I downloaded Units(converts certain units to other units)  and Radius (remote user authentication and accounting) both in.tar extensions. used tar to unzip.

On to building from the source
Steps:

Download the packages and the extract. Both files were in .tar.gz format so I used tar to extract.

$ tar xvzf units-2.02.tar.gz

Next was to run the configure script to find any compatibility issues on a wide variety of computers. we time it to know how long it takes it to execute

$ time ./configure

real    0m1.328s
user    0m0.619s
sys    0m0.329s


Now in order to build the software, we use the command make. Again we time.

$ time make

real    0m0.224s
user    0m0.103s
sys    0m0.054s

After running the command there was no known errors that has shown which means that it run successfully. A way to really check if it is issue-free was for make-install but it was not recommended as it will overwrite files to the system.

Thanks to jmcarman from #seneca channel for helping.