Building software from source

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, September 12, 2005 5:18 PM +0200 Alexander Dalloz 
<ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:

> If you ask me: use Fedora RPMs (Core, Extras, livna, etc.) wherever you
> can and avoid compiling yourself. What do you gain by compiling PHP
> yourself?

In most cases the RPM's are built with reasonable settings, but sometimes 
one wants something non-standard. In that case, download the source RPM, 
which contains the original sources used to create the binary RPM, tweak it 
to your desired settings, and rebuild. http://www.rpm.org/ for more info.