make install
Brian Cluff
brian at snaptek.com
Mon Jul 28 13:46:22 MST 2014
"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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