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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:27:33 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make's default actions
Message-ID:  <20020314212733.GA11936@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020314212239.97536.qmail@web14703.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020314212239.97536.qmail@web14703.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:22:39PM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If you read the porters handbook it states that when
> someone types "make" into a port directory make will
> go in order to the following targets:
> 
> fetch, extract, patch, configure, build
> 
> This is refered to as make's default action. My
> question is how is this acheived? Does freebsd use
> some hached version of make?  This clearly is not
> standard actions for the make utility. If I wanted to
> do a software project of my own on freebsd not related
> to the port collection or porting at all for that
> matter, and wanted to use the make utility, would the
> make program still go through this default action, and
> if so, how do I turn it off. Thanks for your help.
> 
Make is a general purpose tool.
I doubt the ports use a hacked version of it.
The above actions are presumably a consequence of a standard port
configuration makefile.
What make does is determined by the actions you give it in a "makefile".
It has a *lot* of intelligence built into it, but not at that level.

-- 
Regards
   Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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