Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:09:04 -0400 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: jle <jle@baa.ssars.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Totally newbie - install problems Message-ID: <oprq1j5eb00cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20030619172200.B3916@baa.ssars.net> References: <20030619172200.B3916@baa.ssars.net>
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:52:09 -0700 (PDT), jle <jle@baa.ssars.net> wrote:= > >> The target is actually "depends" with the "s". >> >> But how is that different from 'make install clean'? > > *shrug* > make depend (without the 's') all install clean has always worked for = me. > I've used that since FreeBSD 2.1 at least. > > I would think if it was depends that it would say something like: > > make: don't know how to make depend. Stop > > So I assume that depend makes dependencies and all makes all options. = > I've > never really cared what the targets do individually but that's what I = use > to build ports, it always builds the dependencies and I've never had > any problems using it. Maybe it's redundant or superfluous but it work= s > for me. It's probably automatic by now, but yeah, you can save yourself a bit of= = typing by just using # make install clean - it builds all dependencies as well as the main port. Portupgrade by = itself won't upgrade all the dependencies. You'll want to use the -R = option for that. Jud Jud
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