The project only releases packages in source formats, but includes supports for building binary distribution files in a couple formats.

Creating GNU Binary Distribution Files:

From a GNU source release file, a GNU binary release can be built using the --prefix option of the configure script and the DESTDIR option on "make install".

$ ./configure --prefix=target_directory
$ make
$ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/package-release.platform
$ cd /tmp/package-release.platform
$ tar -cf /tmp/package-release.platform.tar.gz *

$ cd /
$ tar -xf /tmp/package-release.platform.tar.gz

Creating Binary RPM Files from GNU Source Release File:

From a GNU source release file you can create a binary .rpm file on a Linux distribution that uses RPM as the packaging system. This is done using the rpmbuild command included in the Makefile created by ./configure..

$ ./configure
$ make rpm

Creating Binary RPM Files from Source RPM:

From a Linux source RPM file you can create a binary .rpm file on a Linux distribution that uses RPM as the packaging system. This is done using the rpmbuild command as follows.

$ rpmbuild --rebuild package-release.src.rpm

Creating Binary DEB Files:

From a GNU source release file you can create a binary .deb file on a Debian, or Debian based, Linux distribution. After extracting the GNU source release file, you will find a "debian" directory with the required files. Reference the Debian New Maintainers' Guide at www.debian.org for instructions.