Newbie Question: cd meta && make install

[hostmaster <alpot mylinuxsite com>]

Hi,

After downloading garnome and performing the necessary configuration, I
run it using the following commands:

$ cd meta
$ make install

After a couple of minutes of compilation, it failed because of some
missing libraries.  This is then when I realized that I was in the wrong
directory.  So my question now is what is the difference between calling
make install in the meta directory compared to running it under
meta/gnome-desktop? 

Thanks.

Al