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From: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: make's default actions
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But that doesn't make sense either. For example look
at /usr/ports/graphics/gqview/Makefile.  I use this
example because I have installed this port. If we were
using a standard make utility then when a user types
"make" in this directory, since no target was
specified, make should go to the first target
encountered, which in this case is pre-patch,
regardless of the fact that bsd.port.mk is included.
But clearly this is not what happens. So my question
is why does this not happen? What is causing the
"default" action?

Wayne




--- Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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.)
> 
> -- 
> 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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