Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:55:44 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Pankaj <pankaj@sarai.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make in freebsd Message-ID: <20020219115544.C911@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20020219093450.A13798@sarai.net>; from pankaj@sarai.net on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:34:50AM %2B0100 References: <20020219093450.A13798@sarai.net>
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--adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:34:50AM +0100, Pankaj wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2002 13:23, Erik Trulsson wrote: > <snip> > > > > 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. >=20 > which means I can safely use a similar makefile and have it *nix specific > and also download what i need automatically. I may be asking dumb questio= ns=20 > cuz i dont know anything about Makefiles I better go RTFM <-- any links= =20 As others pointed out, you may run into portability problems with make(1) programs on different OS's. I'd suggest that you take a look at the OpenPackages project, http://www.openpackages.net/ - it seems to provide a make(1) utility, portable across many OS's and combining the best features of many make(1)'s. I am taking a look at it right now for a little project of mine that has to be portable across at least three Linux distributions, yet which I would prefer to develop under FreeBSD :) G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence contains exactly threee erors. --adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxyIR8ACgkQ7Ri2jRYZRVPMeQCgreZiZ/FrXkJXG5NvXn3GqQCS GE8AoMYI1Ayg2kvHzvbFQVomqRic3tLf =1XZn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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