From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Sep 24 22:27:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pineapple.theshop.net (pineapple.theshop.net [208.128.7.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6E937B433 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsdprophet.org (cherry46.theshop.net [63.67.33.111]) by pineapple.theshop.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8P5UpN49056; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:30:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from Scott@bsdprophet.org) Message-ID: <3BB015CD.7E6381CF@bsdprophet.org> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:27:41 -0500 From: Scott Corey Organization: Open Source Education Foundation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: leegold Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help me understand: make, also file locks References: <001701c14580$6ab3e730$0201a8c0@shavedham> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Okay, Make is a program designed to simplify the maintenance of other programs. Your best bet on all the nitty gritty on make is the "Make -a Tutorial" at: http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/Make/index.html Scott leegold wrote: > > Coming from the ms world, i always installed programs > by pressing a button. i suppose the programs were in binary form. > With freebsd I often see the make command associated w/installing. > if someone could just briefly explain make, make install, and make clean? > > Some apllications need a file lock dir. what is this for? > > Thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message