From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 18:09:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154D137B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (ny2.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5371443FA3 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (server1.internal [10.202.2.132]) by server2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9E76BCDF; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:09:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:09:06 -0400 X-Epoch: 1056071346 X-Sasl-enc: 3Xmu8izHGzZ5jBqjU5pbag Received: from sparky (dialup-67.74.79.134.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.79.134]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9179AAD; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:09:03 -0400 (EDT) To: jle , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030619172200.B3916@baa.ssars.net> Message-ID: From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:09:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030619172200.B3916@baa.ssars.net> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 2952 Subject: Re: Totally newbie - install problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:09:11 -0000 On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:52:09 -0700 (PDT), jle wrote:= > >> The target is actually "depends" with the "s". >> >> But how is that different from 'make install clean'? > > *shrug* > make depend (without the 's') all install clean has always worked for = me. > I've used that since FreeBSD 2.1 at least. > > I would think if it was depends that it would say something like: > > make: don't know how to make depend. Stop > > So I assume that depend makes dependencies and all makes all options. = > I've > never really cared what the targets do individually but that's what I = use > to build ports, it always builds the dependencies and I've never had > any problems using it. Maybe it's redundant or superfluous but it work= s > for me. It's probably automatic by now, but yeah, you can save yourself a bit of= = typing by just using # make install clean - it builds all dependencies as well as the main port. Portupgrade by = itself won't upgrade all the dependencies. You'll want to use the -R = option for that. Jud Jud