From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 7: 5: 6 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 34E9937B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 07:05:05 -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 6366843E3B for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 07:05:04 -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 g91E53Lm029160 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:05:03 -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 g91E53YZ029157; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:05:03 -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> <44lm5iub48.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20020930183217.R63034-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20021001002408.GD77771@vectors.cx> <20020930183217.R63034-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20021001061827.GY30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Oct 2002 10:05:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20021001061827.GY30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Message-ID: <44r8fatfu8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 11 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 Roman Neuhauser writes: > hmm, i could only find one book on make, by ORA, and that is pretty > old. people who have read it and who i talked to said it wasn't the > best stuff from ORA. Yes, the O'Reilly book is fairly old. If you look into software build management, you'll find that it's a reasonably well-explored topic. For someone who's just interested in the syntax of using make, the actual manual, along with another reference or two, are already on their FreeBSD system... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message