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From: Luke Davis <ldavis@dynanet.com>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: my screen problems: script file:
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 22:33:47 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961205223135.6695F-100000@hyperion.dynanet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.93.961206105413.25480A-100000@sparrow.qut.edu.au>

Well, I thought of that way before I started the process, but after
trying man make, and just plain make, with several kinds of
capitalzation, I always got errors.
So, I thought I must be too much of a beubi to realize that when they
said make, they really ment makefile, so I tried that!:)
A bit newer than I even knew!:)
On Fri, 6 Dec
1996, AARON HOWELL wrote:

> Ok. You *don't* run Makefiles from the shell.
> They arent shell scripts.
> What you do is type make.
> make will pick up the Makefile and build your program then its generally
> make install to install it.
> Makefiles control the build process so you don't have to guess for
> yourself what to build and what to link where.
> Try man make at the prompt.
> It should build with no problems after you do that right, screen needs to
> be installed by root of course because it runs setuid.
> Aaron
> 
> 
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