make install

[Michael Havens]

thanks

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> "make install" tells make to look inside the makefile and execute the
> instructions under the install area.  It can literally do anything but it
> also doesn't need to exist at all, it just usually does by convention.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 07/28/2014 01:11 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> what does that command do? I thought that it installed what you compiled
>> with make. but at as I am working through linux from scratch I get to
>> perl and it says:
>>
>> Only a few of the utilities and libraries, need to be installed at this
>> time:
>> cp -v perl cpan/podlators/pod2man /tools/bin
>> mkdir -pv /tools/lib/perl5/5.18.2
>> cp -Rv lib/* /tools/lib/perl5/5.18.2
>>
>> so is it installing the files with cp?  is 'make install' just another
>> way to say 'cp'?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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