RE: Help!! 2nd Request!!!

[Axel Kittenberger <Anshil at gmx dot net>]

Well they aren't greek but just a little unix technical.
(So please forgive me my english in advance as I'm no native speaker)

The documenation is not greek, as even I understood a fair part of it, as
I'm (as already said) not a native speaker, and I know my grammar shows it
:-)

However it's a little technical, and expects some unix knowledge from the
reader.

> I just want to get Mailman up and running. I’ll install it on a
few sites 
> on the machine. I’m not developing anything. So I assume
that’s *native*?

Yes this is native. A compiler can either generate executable for the
machine where it runs itself (->native) or it can generate executable which run
on another platform (->cross target)

> > We use srcdir to refer to the toplevel source directory for GCC; we
use > > objdir to refer to the toplevel build/object directory. 

> That’s nice. Plain English, this means what? Could someone give me
an
> *example* to show me how this applies?

You downloaded the source and somewhere you will have unpacked it
somewhere, not? This is your srcdir.

The objdir is a tempory directory you'll have to create, and which is used
during installation, after it's finished you can delete it. 

> What path? An example here would help as well, thank you.

Well the path variable is nothing sophisticated for high-level developers,
but the documentation expect some unix-knowledge (which most users should
be aware of.)

The executable's you can run are strayed all over the system.
If in example you have type 'vi' the system has to have some sort of list
where to look for the vi executable. This list is your PATH.
You can view it by typing 'export' and you can add new directories to it,
by
in example export PATH=$PATH:/home/your-user-name/my/new/path/directory



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