Suckless is one of the best and most popular non-GNU software projects for Linux & Unix like operating systems. They have made some of the fastest and best apps available right now, such as dwm, st, dmenu, and surf. While the software is useful, it can be a little hard to install properly, as it requires building from source. But no worries, I am here to show you how to correctly obtain all of the dependencies, get the code, and build it.
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If you really like routinely building core packages in your system from source, use Gentoo. It’s a distro made for building everything from source, so is one of the best set up for the risks that entails.
As gentoo user I can’t argue with that… ;)
But I think there are reasons why someone would want to build suckless tools manually…namely that their configuration is mostly done in the source-code (Damn, it’s so hard to not write anything too opinionated about suckless but I really try my best). But even then I agree with your other post that it’s far better to use the distro facilities for building the the distro source packages just with your own patches applied.