Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:52:55 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: S Roberts <sroberts84@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 Stable - documented Mozilla Upgrade to mozilla 0.9.8 Message-ID: <20020219085255.E492@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <F130JxLkxxUOka09NmX0000487e@hotmail.com>; from sroberts84@hotmail.com on Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:44:50PM %2B0000 References: <F130JxLkxxUOka09NmX0000487e@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:44:50PM +0000, S Roberts wrote: > Hi Edwin, > Thanks for getting back to me, and for the information. > > I need to verify the following please: > >cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla > >make > For my benefit, could you explain why a "make" is required at this point, > please? In every directory in the ports-hierarchy there is a Makefile. This file describes what has to be done to create this port. To "run" the Makefile, you have to execute the command make. It will parse the Makefile and do the following things (in general): - See if the tarball with the source is on this system and if not, fetch it. - Extract the tarball - Patch the source with some FreeBSD specific issues. - Run configure to create a makefile for the source. - Create the executable You can do these steps one at a time by specifying a parameter with the make-command (make fetch, make extract, make patch, make configure, make build). Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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