From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 24911 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1996 03:34:30 -0000 Received: from hyperion.dynanet.com (ldavis@206.84.40.1) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 1996 03:34:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (ldavis@localhost) by hyperion.dynanet.com (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA07972 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 22:33:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 22:33:47 -0500 (EST) From: Luke Davis To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: my screen problems: script file: In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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 > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Aaron Howell. Q.U.T Equity Department, Technical Support/Training. > work: a.howell@qut.edu.au Linux/Networking Support. > home: a.howell@student.qut.edu.au phone +61-19-956-467 > www: http://www.cnl.com.au/~aaron irc: DaRkAnGeL > Take an active stand against the NTEU wage claim. > Let them know loud and clear that blackmail will not be tollerated. > Defend the rights of students to fair and reasonable delivery of marks, > after all, we work too. > > --- > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > with subject line: unsubscribe > >