On Saturday 09 Jan 2010 10:47:09 am Arun Venkataswamy wrote:
* To link against local libraries. The configure scripts are intelligent* and in many cases the available packages are b0rked. Case in point things
enough to find out what is present and what is not. For example, the
BlueZ Bluetooth utils package (Debian 4.x) leaves certain parts like the
pass key agent to be compiled locally (the C version)
* Extreme cases - In a very security sensitive installation, you can audit
the entire or portions of the source code before deployment.
* If the software is dependent on hardware, in most cases, you will have to
compile it yourself.
* In some cases the binary package, for general usage might not have
compiled in special features of the software (which can be selected in the
configure script)