title: LevelDB Building and Performance
body: <p>I've managed to build levelDB by doing a git clone of levelDB, do a make which produces this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[root@ip-xxx leveldb-master]# ls -ltr
  total 88
  drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  4096 Apr 15 13:58 util
  -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   535 Apr 15 13:58 TODO
  drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  4096 Apr 15 13:58 table
  -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  8212 Apr 15 13:58 README.md
  drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root  4096 Apr 15 13:58 port
  -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   509 Apr 15 13:58 NEWS
  -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 15424 Apr 15 13:58 Makefile
  -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  1484 Apr 15 13:58 LICENSE
  drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root    52 Apr 15 13:58 issues
  drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root    20 Apr 15 13:58 include
  drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root    19 Apr 15 13:58 helpers
  drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root  4096 Apr 15 13:58 doc
  drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  4096 Apr 15 13:58 db
  -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  1648 Apr 15 13:58 CONTRIBUTING.md
  -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  7459 Apr 15 13:58 build_detect_platform
  -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   293 Apr 15 13:58 AUTHORS
  -rw-r-----. 1 root root  1127 Jun 21 13:34 build_config.mk
  drwxr-x---. 7 root root  4096 Jun 21 13:35 out-shared
  drwxr-x---. 7 root root  4096 Jun 21 13:35 out-static
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So now I see a bunch of guides online that say to do this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cp --preserve=links libleveldb.* /usr/local/lib
  cp -r include/leveldb /usr/local/include/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can't seem to find anything with libleveldb.* after doing the make command.</p>
  
  <p>Also how would I invoke the db_bench to get those rough performance metrics it can produce.</p>