On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Neeraj Manral wrote:
>
> > > Ishall tell u what i am trying to do .
> > > I have installed linux6.0 redhat on my machine( pentium mmx 166mhz 96
> mb
> > > ram)I did a custom installation where in i didnot select sendmail option
> .
> > > After that i configured internet on linux (we use a proxy server to
> > connect
> > > to net in our company)
> > > I downloaded exim-3.16.tar.gz .in diras : /home
> > > /neeraj/test/download/exim-3.16tar.gz
> > > the cd into tthat dir i untared it by the command
> > > gunzip exim 3.16.tar.gz
> > > tar xvf exim-3.16.tar.gz
> > > After unzipping it In a : /home /neeraj/test/download/exim dir i found
> > > some 12 files /dir created)
> > > I Found a dir by the name Local I created a blank file Makefile in that
> > > dir.Then i cd to scr and found EDITME
> > > I cd scr
> > > scr$cp EDITME /home /neeraj/test/download/exim/Local/Makefile
> > > The EDITME FILE overrided the blank make file .
> > >
> > > THE PROBLEM STARTS HERE
> > > I would like to know as to how to use the make command.I tried cd to
> Local
> > > dir and run make
> > > BUT found the error
> > > start.****target not found.stop.
afaik you have to start make one directory level
higher. /neeraj/test/download/exim/
there is a Makefile wich acces the Makefile in ../Local
