building from sources

Garry Knight garryknight at gmx.net
Sun Jan 7 02:00:31 UTC 2007


MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:

> When you build an application from source, do you always make install?

When you've uncompressed it, look for a README file and/or an INSTALL file.
The usual order of things is:

./configure
make
sudo make install

-- 
Garry Knight
garryknight at gmx.net





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