From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Nov 25 05:55:40 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E0916A41F
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:55:40 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from jahilliya@gmail.com)
Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F1C243D45
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:55:39 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from jahilliya@gmail.com)
Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so416573nzd
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:55:39 -0800 (PST)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
	b=KIxUh8aF5z6L++HOJu7uOeGMqIGDSNyqbd3nCQiNxiGk3E2EI4V+GkqFcaK8SsnQA5nwhiKHPeyBmfhiT3Nh9jMByHDVvkGnmL3dhWRSUK8mupNUVdZsfx3VwiCFIe5c8D8ftmCHgK3AtW25reiTt1E1iKeepamMwNamdYJa9jg=
Received: by 10.65.186.13 with SMTP id n13mr7981573qbp;
	Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:55:39 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.64.184.14 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:55:39 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <ba5e78ea0511242155t79c38d6di6027d69032cba6b0@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:55:39 +0800
From: Daniel <jahilliya@gmail.com>
To: Jose Borquez <calartstech@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051125053843.9004.qmail@web54712.mail.yahoo.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <20051125053843.9004.qmail@web54712.mail.yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: make: don't know how to make TARGET. Stop
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:55:40 -0000

On 11/25/05, Jose Borquez <calartstech@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am going to recompile the source and I want to save
> the output from running make to a file.
> I run script /var/tmp/mw.out then get the following
> output:
> Script started, output file is /var/tmp/mw.out
>
> Then I run make TARGET and get the following error:
> make: don't know how to make TARGET. Stop
>
> What have I done wrong or am I missing something?
>
> Thank you,
> Jose

What source are you recompiling?

TARGET should be what you want to build, not what you put on the command li=
ne.

So you should be entering something like: make clean
or
make build
or
make install
or
make distclean
etc...

Read the documentation for whatever you're trying to "make"