Time for action – compiling the source

After specifying our environment and building the requirements, we need to do the actual compilation. Compiling source code is very easy and is a matter of just one command:

make

We do not need to be the root or super user to execute this command. This command may take a considerable amount of time to execute, depending on the system hardware. Running make will produce a lot of output in the terminal. It may also produce a lot of compiler warnings which can safely be ignored in most cases.

If make ends with errors, we should check Squid bugzilla for similar problems. We can update an existing bug with our error report or create a new bug report if there is no similar bug already. For details on troubleshooting ...

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