From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 18 23:37:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB1E37B402 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:37:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1J7beZR051967; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:07:41 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: make in freebsd From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Pankaj Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020219080213.A7580@sarai.net> References: <20020219080213.A7580@sarai.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 19 Feb 2002 19:07:40 +1130 Message-Id: <1014104262.556.110.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 18:32, Pankaj wrote: > 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. The ports tree uses several (large) makefile fragments in /usr/ports/Mk. If you look at the bottom of each port makefile you will see ".include " (although some use pre and post instead if they are complicated). --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message