On Dec 12, 2003, at 1:51 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
> Hi guys. (and any gals out in compu-land),
>
> When you are trying to compile is it to be assumed that './' will
> alert you to
> any problems? How will it do this alerting?
'./' just means 'here' in the sense of 'in the current directory'. So
when you start to compile a tarball you usually expand it, cd into the
top directory and type './configure'. but that just means 'run the
version of the configure script in this directory'.
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