From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 14:28:00 2003 Return-Path: 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 20E1E37B401 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:28:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from rackspace.mqtweb.com (rackspace.mqtweb.com [65.61.155.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A919C43F75 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:27:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pdlathro@chartermi.net) Received: from chartermi.net (Minerva.resnet.nmu.edu [204.38.206.30]) by rackspace.mqtweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1FF632076; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:33:58 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 17:27:53 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) To: Erik Trulsson From: Paul D.Lathrop In-Reply-To: <20030329213601.GA42087@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail (v25) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Collection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 22:28:01 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 04:36 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:29:31PM -0500, Paul D.Lathrop wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I have a question about the ports collection. What are the possible >> "arguments" to make, and what do they do. For example, I know the >> basic >> make install and make clean, but I have heard of make fetch and >> several >> others. Is there a way to have a port tell you it's dependencies >> without installing them (so you can tune the installation of each to >> your needs)? > > May I suggest you read the ports(7) manpage? That should answer most > of your questions. The file /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk also contains > useful information. > > -- > > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Thanks, will do. (Never thought there would *be* a man page :-) ) - -Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQE+hh3slos2supvBQwRAthwAJwPI6ya8a76+gHzkj8dO4wcGdhkaQCfUL/k Zy5z+PffrWjTX9z7Qakw4/0= =M9ct -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----