After downloading software with GNU arch, you probably want to compile it. Software I wrote from scratch follows are standard scheme, which is described below.
We assume that you have already downloaded the software with GNU arch and that you start inside the top-level directory of the project tree (which contains the source code). Now issue the following commands:
$ mkdir =build $ cd =build $ ../configure lots of output $ make even more output $ make install
If necessary, you can invoke ../configure with options such as prefix. Invoke ../configure --help to see the available options.
The special =build/ directory and its subdirectories are ignored by tla, so you can safely avoid storing automatically generated files such object files in the archive.