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Re: what is the meaning of " mkdir linux-build"?
- From: Lou Losee <llosee at hvc dot rr dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 00:14:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: what is the meaning of " mkdir linux-build"?
- References: <00ca01c4115c$bd425180$1fc4c2ca@hhw100>
* hhw <hhw3@163.com> [2004-03-24 00:01]:
>
>
> I found these commands:
> $> tar -xvzf libosip-0.X.X.tar.gz
> $> mkdir linux-build
> $> cd linux-build
> $> ../libosip-0.X.X/configure
> $> make
> $> make install
>
>
> Can you tell me why he "mkdir linux-build" and "cd linux-build"?
> Why not he directly "cd libosip-0.X.X" and "./configure".
To separate the binaries from the source??
Lou
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