From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 18 23:10:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.waag.org (A20.waag.org [194.134.18.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E7737B421 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:10:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pankaj@localhost) by mail.waag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id IAA07707 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:02:30 +0100 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:02:13 +0100 From: Pankaj To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: make in freebsd Message-ID: <20020219080213.A7580@sarai.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hii all, I was wondering if anyone would put some light over the way 'make' works in freeBSD I mean when i go to /usr/ports/XYZ and type make it tries to fetch the sources and then compiles it Is it a feature in make? I want to make an covering layer over a software such that it automaticaly locates the components it needs and compiles them without the user to look around for them. I have read the handbook's description of it and am still unclear. -- ThanX Pankaj To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message