From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 15 17:01:55 2004 Return-Path: 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 BB5CE16A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:01:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from out009.verizon.net (out009pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF9843D48 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:01:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.120.219]) by out009.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040316010154.WBJO29216.out009.verizon.net@mac.com>; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:01:54 -0600 Message-ID: <40565183.3080000@mac.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:59:47 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alina Groulx References: <1B74E3AB9C498E479D071D5C59C32FE5BAA575@server01.klocwork.com> In-Reply-To: <1B74E3AB9C498E479D071D5C59C32FE5BAA575@server01.klocwork.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out009.verizon.net from [68.161.120.219] at Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:01:54 -0600 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the build process X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 01:01:55 -0000 Alina Groulx wrote: > I have been asked to do a software assessment on FreeBSD. So what I > normally do is use a script to wrap around the build process normally > Makefiles. What I do is run a make -i and just read the build process. I > have noticed that you do not have a general configure script to build a > general makefile. Am I missing something? Your question is somewhat unclear, but if you are asking whether FreeBSD builds via the GNU autoconf-based configure system which one runs to generate a Makefile, the answer is, no. > I guess I need to know how you build it? Consult the handbook, "man release", or look at /usr/src/Makefile for the buildworld target. > What compiler you use to build the code? Most commonly, gcc. There's been some work to support icc as well... -- -Chuck