Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:22:20 -0800 (PST) From: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> To: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp> Cc: alane@geeksrus.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make's default actions while installing ports Message-ID: <20020315022220.12194.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020315.110950.89361717.uebayasi@soum.co.jp>
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OK, fine, pretty, beautiful and life is great and all that, but does anyone know how/where the "all" target is defined in bsd.port.mk ?? And if so, can you clue me in on it too? Thanks. Wayne --- Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp> wrote: > > Reading the make(1) man page carefully really is > important if you're > > going to try to trace through the bsd.*.mk files. > They are rather abusive > > in the sense that they take full advantage of BSD > make features (like the > > 'target(word)' predicate) that don't exist in > other make implementations, > > and in the sense that they are very complex, > involving long chains of > > dependencies and definitions. > > Exactly... > > > For example, as near as I can tell, there is no > way to express that > > particular idiom in GNU make (a feature missing > from GNU make? how could > > that happen?). > > GNUish development tends to use make(1) more > statically, that is, > complex conditioans are processed before a makefile > is made. Besides, > Makefiles produced by Autotools are carefully made > to be nutral. > > Masao __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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