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27th July 2009 - Link Blog

Learning to compile things from source (on Unix/Linux/OSX). I asked on serverfault.com for tips on learning how to solve configure/make/install problems on my own, and got some extremely useful replies.

Posted 27th July 2009 at 4:21 pm

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