3. Installation notes

make to compile utilities. make html to prepare html documentation, make man if you prefer man pages. Nothing fancy, provided you have DocBook package installed.

make install installs only HTML documentation to /usr/doc/iputils. It even does not try to install binaries and man pages. If you read historical notes above, the reason should be evident. Most of utilities intersect with utilities distributed in another packages, and making such target rewriting existing installation would be a crime from my side. The decision what variant of ping is preferred, how to resolve the conflicts etc. is left to you or to person who assembled an rpm. I vote for variant from iputils of course.

Anyway, select utilities which you like and install them to the places which you prefer together with their man pages.

It is possible that compilation will fail, if you use some funny Linux distribution mangling header files in some unexpected ways (expected ones are the ways of redhat of course :-)). I validate iputils against asplinux distribution, which is inevitably followed by validity with respect to redhat. If your distribution is one of widely known ones, suse or debian, it also will compile provided snapshot is elder than month or so and someone reported all the problems, if they took place at all.

Anyway, please, do not abuse me complaining about some compilation problems in any distribution different of asplinux or redhat. If you have a fix, please, send it to me, I will check that it does not break distributions mentioned above and apply it. But I am not going to undertake any investigations, bare reports are deemed to be routed to /dev/null.