Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 00:34:43 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: what is the meaning of " mkdir linux-build"? Message-ID: <20040324053443.GA12151@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <00ca01c4115c$bd425180$1fc4c2ca AT hhw100> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00ca01c4115c$bd425180$1fc4c2ca@hhw100> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:59:01PM +0800, hhw wrote: > 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". Sorry but this has nothing to do with cygwin. Ask wherever you got the libosip-0.X.X.tar.gz file. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/