Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:27:33 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make's default actions Message-ID: <20020314212733.GA11936@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020314212239.97536.qmail@web14703.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020314212239.97536.qmail@web14703.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:22:39PM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: > Hi, > > If you read the porters handbook it states that when > someone types "make" into a port directory make will > go in order to the following targets: > > fetch, extract, patch, configure, build > > This is refered to as make's default action. My > question is how is this acheived? Does freebsd use > some hached version of make? This clearly is not > standard actions for the make utility. If I wanted to > do a software project of my own on freebsd not related > to the port collection or porting at all for that > matter, and wanted to use the make utility, would the > make program still go through this default action, and > if so, how do I turn it off. Thanks for your help. > Make is a general purpose tool. I doubt the ports use a hacked version of it. The above actions are presumably a consequence of a standard port configuration makefile. What make does is determined by the actions you give it in a "makefile". It has a *lot* of intelligence built into it, but not at that level. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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