On 6/6/25 11:43 PM, Duncan Roe wrote:
On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 10:27:56AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
They're always built and installed when you use `make install'. The
problem, of course, is users (some) or distros (all) who don't use a
^^^ Slackware does
simple `make install', but rather some other installation or packaging
mechanism.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier for everyone if `make` compiled the supported
examples instead of `make install` doing it?
There has always been `make loadables' if you want to play around with the
examples. Not everyone does. The business of installing the loadables and
headers on `make install' came later as the result of feature requests.
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