Anti-Lamenessing Engine (ALE) ebuild?

[0xDEADBEEF]

Whenever I want to merge photos I transfer them from my 2100 MHz Athlon box to my headless 500 MHz Debian box, and then run ALE on them, which often crashes the whole system due to flakey hardware.

Does anyone feel like being really cool and becoming a gentoo maintainer for this program?

http://auricle.dyndns.org/ALE/


I'm not much good with portage innards or compiling manually...

[LeTene]

Downloaded it for a look as I was bored at work .

You don't need to do much to get it running, here's the steps I did which should work for you. Do all of this as a normal user, not root:

1. Create a top-level directory to hold "source only" projects for neateness...
   

   Code:

   letene@tux letene $ mkdir ~/source-projects

   
   ..and change into it
   

   Code:

   letene@tux letene $ cd ~/source-projects

   
   
2. Grab the latest source code for ALE...
   

   Code:

   letene@tux source-projects $ wget http://auricle.dyndns.org/ALE/download/ale-0.8.0.tar.gz

   
   ...and un-tar it:
   

   Code:

   letene@tux source-projects $ tar zxf ale-0.8.0.tar.gz

   
   
3. Change into the newly-created ALE directory...
   

   Code:

   letene@tux source-projects $ cd ale-0.8.0

   
   ...and build the project:
   

   Code:

   letene@tux ale-0.8.0 $ make

   
   

That's it! The ALE program is ~/source-projects/ale-0.8.0/ale and you can su to root and then copy this file to /usr/bin (or wherever) and it'll be globally available. Personally, I just leave such projects in the user directories and call them with the full path...you might be different.
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