From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 18 23:53:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailg.telia.com (mailg.telia.com [194.22.194.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D061137B402 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:53:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailg.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1J7rOP08772 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:53:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA16876 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:53:24 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 72270 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Feb 2002 07:53:20 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:53:20 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Pankaj Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make in freebsd Message-ID: <20020219075320.GB68878@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Pankaj , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020219080213.A7580@sarai.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020219080213.A7580@sarai.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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, Feb 19, 2002 at 08:02:13AM +0100, Pankaj wrote: > 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? No, it is a feature of the makefiles. 'Make' itself doesn't know anything about fetching sources and so on. Most of the dirty work is done in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk which is included by the port makefiles. > > 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 -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message