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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 00:14:23 -0500
From: Lou Losee <llosee AT hvc DOT rr DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: what is the meaning of  " mkdir linux-build"?
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* hhw <hhw3 AT 163 DOT 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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