Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 17:56:53 -0400 From: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <metcalf@snet.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Q: Development questions on FreeBSD Message-ID: <337F7B25.41C67EA6@snet.net>
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Hello, This question may be more suited to a general UNIX development newsgroup, but since I would be using FreeBSD, I thought I would post here. I would like to get into some more serious software development on FreeBSD, but I need to learn some of the basics. For now, I was wondering how some of the complex makefiles I see in the FreeBSD ports are generated. Does the developer actually do this by hand? That is, is the developer just an expert in the pseudo-language of makefiles? Or is there some king of ascii-based or GUI development tool available for UNIX that generates makefiles based on compiling options and the like? I would really be surprised if makefile generation is done totally by hand, since it seems so mundane and you don't really "seem" to learn alot from doing it. It would seem to me to almost certainly be a process that can be automated. Also, does anyone know of any integrated development environments for UNIX (FreeBSD) that would closely approximate some of the capabilities of the Borland C++ Builder or the Borland Delphi development environments? Hopefully these questions are good ones. Thank You, JM -- Jeffrey M. Metcalf metcalf@snet.net http://ruddles.stat.uconn.edu/~jeff
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