technical install question

I'm running on OS X, however I suspect that the answer is the same for
each OS. When we do an install from a tar, ./configure, make, make
install, adding our favorited options and such. In the case where
we're not satisfied with the previouse install and we repeat each step
of the way

Do the files from the previous install get removed, written over, left
alone if found, or appended if found?

I'll be repeating the install till I feel i get it right, however I
don't know if I should be deleting the files and directories that were
created in the previous install.

And is there a way of saving all the current configurations into a tar
package? The purpose is to be able to reproduce the install between
sindows, OS X, and a few linuxii, and solaris.

Thanks

On Apr 1, 9:16 pm, "mmccaws2" <mmcc....DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm running on OS X, however I suspect that the answer is the same for
> each OS. When we do an install from a tar, ./configure, make, make
> install, adding our favorited options and such. In the case where
> we're not satisfied with the previouse install and we repeat each step
> of the way
>
> Do the files from the previous install get removed, written over, left
> alone if found, or appended if found?
>
> I'll be repeating the install till I feel i get it right, however I
> don't know if I should be deleting the files and directories that were
> created in the previous install.
>
> And is there a way of saving all the current configurations into a tar
> package? The purpose is to be able to reproduce the install between
> sindows, OS X, and a few linuxii, and solaris.
>
> Thanks

Oh here is an interesting output after ./configure

Configuring Apache Portable Runtime Utility library...

checking for APR-util... yes
configure: error: Cannot use an external APR-util with the bundled APR


do I need to install some module for ? from ?

Thanks

mike