Many of the common Linux build processes work for this scenario. Use the techniques that are best suited for your situation.
The source code for an application package can be retrieved in various ways. For example, you can get the source code either
in tar file form or by downloading from a git repository where the package resides.
The following are examples of some of the most common cases.
(Optional) Verify that the application package builds using standard configure/make/make install.
bash$ tar --xvzf example-app.tgz
bash$ mkdir example-lib-install
bash$ cd example-app/
bash$ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/example-app-install
bash$ make
bash$ make install
Sometimes it is necessary to pass extra options to the ./configure script, for example to specify which optional components and dependencies are needed. Passing extra options depends entirely
on the application being built.
Example - Build Ganglia and its dependencies
In this example, we build ganglia, along with the third-party libraries that it requires - libexpat, libapr, and libconfuse.
libexpat
bash$ wget 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.1.0/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz'
bash$ mkdir expat-install
bash$ tar xvzf expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
bash$ cd expat-2.1.0
bash$ ./configure --prefix=/home/sdk-user/expat-install
bash$ make
bash$ make install
bash$ cd ..
libapr
bash$ wget 'http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/apr/apr-1.5.2.tar.gz'
bash$ mkdir apr-install
bash$ tar xvzf apr-1.5.2.tar.gz
bash$ cd apr-1.5.2
bash$ ./configure --prefix=/home/sdk-user/apr-install
bash$ make
bash$ make install
bash$ cd ..
libconfuse
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confuse requires the extra --enable-shared option to ./configure, otherwise it builds a statically linked library instead of the required shared library.
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bash$ wget 'http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/confuse/confuse-2.7.tar.gz'
bash$ mkdir confuse-install
bash$ tar xvzf confuse-2.7.tar.gz
bash$ cd confuse-2.7
bash$ ./configure --prefix=/home/sdk-user/confuse-install --enable-shared
bash$ make
bash$ make install
bash$ cd ..
ganglia
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The locations to all the required libraries are passed to ./configure.
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bash$ wget 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ganglia/ganglia%20monitoring%20core/3.7.2/ganglia-3.7.2.tar.gz'
bash$ mkdir ganglia-install
bash$ tar xvzf ganglia-3.7.2.tar.gz
bash$ cd ganglia-3.7.2
bash$ ./configure --with-libexpat=/home/sdk-user/expat-install --with-libapr=/home/sdk-user/apr-install/bin/apr-1-config --with-libconfuse=/home/sdk-user/confuse-install --prefix=/home/sdk-user/ganglia-install
bash$ make
bash$ make install
bash$ cd ..