Re: Newbie Question: cd meta && make install

[Luke Yelavich <lukethemuso ozemail com au>]

At 11:46 PM 5/10/2003, hostmaster wrote:
> After downloading garnome and performing the necessary configuration, I
> run it using the following commands:
>
> $ cd meta
> $ make install
>
> After a couple of minutes of compilation, it failed because of some
> missing libraries.  This is then when I realized that I was in the wrong
> directory.  So my question now is what is the difference between calling
> make install in the meta directory compared to running it under
> meta/gnome-desktop?

I guess it has to do with dependancies. If you examine the Makefile in the 
meta/gnome-desktop directory, you will notice heaps of dependancies listed. 
These aren't listed in the meta/ Makefile.

hth

Luke