Basically anton's correct. It makes the Makefile clean.
When you run a ./configure and it goes down and checks a lot of things,
do you have this, do you have that, do you need this, do I care that you
don't have this? Stuff like that. Then in the Makefile it adds a lot of
extra stuff.
When you run the make, it will then make the install information, but it
can make it with a lot of extra stuff. Directories that aren't needed
for your configuration, and others.
It's a good idea to run make clean, but not needed. Some cases it's not
"supported." a lot like make depend.
But always, and I stress ALWAYS read, at the very least, the INSTALL
file. It will tell you if you need or should run the make clean.
Hope that helps ya.
tdh
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| What does the 'make clean' bit at the end do? i aint never done that
| before <g>
| -- Jamie
|
| >----------
| >From: anton[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| >Sent: 26 July 2001 16:17
| >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| >Subject: Re: [newbie] Extreme *nix user wantabee
| >
| >Go in main subfolder:
| >and type:
| >
| >./configure
| >make
| >make install
| >make clean
| >
| >But first read everyhing (readme , install notes , tutorials , how to's , and
| >so on)
| >
| >
| >
| >On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:48:26 -0400, Chris Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >My first voyage into non-MS waters.
| >
| >Installed Mandrake 7.1
| >DL'ed NetAtalk from http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/obtaining.html
| >I want to create a Linux file system for out DTP Macs.
| >
| >I TARed it and it created several subfolders.
| >
| >Now what? How to Install this app?
| >
| >Thanks
| >Chris
| >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| >
| >
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