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makaveli_0000 · 01-11-2007, 10:56 PM

Newbie on board, trying to understand some basic concepts.

After running the configure script, do I always have to run the 'make' command before 'make install'? Can I simply run the 'make install'? What is the difference between both commands

twantrd · 01-12-2007, 02:23 AM

running 'make' will compile the code and produce a binary and other stuff. 'make install' will install the binary, config files, and libraries into their appropriate paths. If you run 'make install' without first running make, it's not going to harm anything as it will just exit out displaying the error(s) on stdout.

-twantrd

Quigi · 01-12-2007, 10:16 AM

Normally, "make install" should work, i.e., build the binaries (etc.) first if you didn't run "make" yet, then install them. That's the beauty of make.

I prefer to run "make" as a normal user, then "make install" as root. Only installation needs root privileges, to write, e.g., into /usr/local/bin.

JZL240I-U · 01-16-2007, 06:43 AM

"Make install" also puts the documentation in it's proper places, man-pages, info-pages, handbook.html all go to the places specified for them (and where the others already reside so as not to clutter your system)...