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From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: distfile, makefile, etc
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This makefile/distfile is still an alien concept to me. I would like to
install elm on my system. I understand that I must compile it myself, and
that a makefile is some kind of compilation control. I've gathered this
from the docs on make and man pages.

I have figured out how to extract binarys, and installed X using the
cat|tar combo.

Does anyone know of a website or other documentation that really spells
out the process of compiling something like elm on a FreeBSD system?

Ken Marsh.