What is the best way for a newbie to complie programs?

[Tideflat]

I am wondering what is the best way for me to compile source code so that the end program can be seen in my package management.

I understand that I could just do "./configure && make && make install" and I think I could handle that, but that won't put it in sync with my package manager, will it? There also seems to make a huge number of different options for managing compiling. Like installwatch, and SLACKBUILDS and src2pkg.

So what way should I learn to do it?

[Tim CowChip]

http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/B ... h_slkbuild