"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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