Linux standards

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

Jerry Feldman writes:
| Most of the better apps require the following steps:
| 1. ./configure [ configure arguments ]
| 2. make
| 3. become root.
| 4. make install
| 5. become non-root.

Hey, you forgot a very common (and important) step:

  2.5. make test

I'm always disappointed at packages that don't  have  this.
Of  course,  writing  a  good test suite can take more work
that writing the package itself ...