From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 19:49:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928D837B404 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D483C43E77 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:49:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g912nSLm027614 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 22:49:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g912nSc0027611; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 22:49:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports FAQ is a great read References: <20020930183217.R63034-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20021001002408.GD77771@vectors.cx> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 30 Sep 2002 22:49:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20021001002408.GD77771@vectors.cx> Message-ID: <44lm5iub48.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Adam Weinberger writes: > "make install clean" is the same thing as: > make install ; make clean It's a bit closer to "make install && make clean". > >> (09.30.2002 @ 1539 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 1.5K: << > > and why "make" can take different commands in the first place. It doesn't take "commands"; it takes "targets". Explaining why that is meaningful involves understanding what make(1) actually does. There are whole *books* written on make, and syntax varies a bit from one make implementation to another. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message