SPO600 Code Building Lab

Purpose of this Lab
In this lab, you will do a baseline build of a software package and benchmark its performance.

Lab 2

Prerequisites

You must have working accounts on a Linux server (such as Matrix, Zenit, the SPO600 Servers or your own system).

Tasks

Do not build or install as root.
Do not build the software as root, and do not install the software into the system directories.

1. Select a software package from the [Free Software Foundation's GNU Project].
2. Build the software. You may need to install build dependencies (e.g., compilers, tools, and libraries).
3. Test that it works.
4. Select a second, open source software package that has a different license, and repeat the process with that software.
5. Blog about the process, your results, your observations, and what you learned.