If you’ve used any flavour of Unix for development, you’ve probably installed software from source with this magic incantation: I know I’ve typed it a lot, but in my early days using Linux I didn’t really understand what it meant, I just knew that if I wanted to install software this was the spell to recite. Recently I’ve been building my own Unix tools, and I wanted to tap into this standard inst
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