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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:18:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: make's default actions
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This "default action" on applies when the makefile includes <bsd.port.mk>
or both of <bsd.port.pre.mk> and <bsd.port.post.mk>.  (There are found in
/usr/ports/Mk, and have all the rules required to implement the fetch,
extract, patch, configure, build and install targets.)

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Matthew Emmerton      || matt@gsicomp.on.ca
GSI Computer Services || http://www.gsicomp.on.ca

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, 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.
> 
> Wayne
> 
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