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Date:      Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:09:04 -0400
From:      Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm>
To:        jle <jle@baa.ssars.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Totally newbie - install problems
Message-ID:  <oprq1j5eb00cf2rk@fastmail.fm>
In-Reply-To: <20030619172200.B3916@baa.ssars.net>
References:  <20030619172200.B3916@baa.ssars.net>

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On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:52:09 -0700 (PDT), jle <jle@baa.ssars.net> wrote:=


>
>> The target is actually "depends" with the "s".
>>
>> But how is that different from 'make install clean'?
>
> *shrug*
> make depend (without the 's') all install clean has always worked for =
me.
> I've used that since FreeBSD 2.1 at least.
>
> I would think if it was depends that it would say something like:
>
> make: don't know how to make depend. Stop
>
> So I assume that depend makes dependencies and all makes all options. =

> I've
> never really cared what the targets do individually but that's what I =
use
> to build ports, it always builds the dependencies and I've never had
> any problems using it. Maybe it's redundant or superfluous but it work=
s
> for me.

It's probably automatic by now, but yeah, you can save yourself a bit of=
 =

typing by just using

# make install clean

 - it builds all dependencies as well as the main port.  Portupgrade by =

itself won't upgrade all the dependencies.  You'll want to use the -R =

option for that.

Jud

Jud



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