Please tell me the difference between commands

[yasirassassin]

hey guys what is the difference between cmake and make command

and also help me understanding this command

cmake ../..

cmake does make sense but ../.. does not make any sense to me
..am waiting for reply
thanks in advance:)

[Rail Balco]

Looks like cmake is cross platform
Found some discussion here

[Flemur]

" ../.. " means go up two directory levels. Try

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$ ls ../..

[bjornmu]

cmake is a platform independent tool for high level control of the software build process, while make is a more low-level tool for unix platforms. You typically may run cmake first, then make.

../.. is the parent parent directory, and the argument to cmake is the top level directory of the source. cmake ../.. means yo prepare a build in a sub-subdirectory of the source; you may do an independent build in another subdirectory.

These are all very general remarks of course.

Gah, and this would be my first post in the forum, it's not even about Mint! Well I do use cmake and make extensively in my work but only for a single sw product. And I post this on OpenSolaris since I haven't yet "activated' my new dekstop where I have successfully installed Linux Mint 14 MATE.