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[help] I forgot “make” command before “sudo make install”
¿Qué hace 'make install'?
Observações quanto aos comandos make e make install
The commands that are executed by make install (or any invocation of make) are defined in the Makefile (and files included by the Makefile). For simple programs, you can just look for a line install: and see the commands in the lines below. But makefiles can also be quite complicated and scattered across various subdirectories. For details, see the manual for make, or an introduction to make.
As @Romeo Ninov wrote, you can also use the command make -n install so see what commands would be executed. Beware that for larger makefiles this output may not be accurate, and if you haven't built the program yet it will likely show you all the commands to build before showing the commands to install.
If no file arg ist passed to make , make looks for a file named Makefile in current dir. With the switch -f an alternative file can be passed to make. See man make for more information. By the way: make is one of these such good old Unix tools so try to get familiar with it ...
Super noob here. I think I’m compiling dolphin on Ubuntu. Is this going to be a issue?
In the video I saw him type “make” and then “sudo make install”
I skipped the “make” command and fear I’ve messed up something.
It’s still installing at 14% but double it will work now.
Any beginners books or someone wanna enlighten me please.
Thank-you