Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:53:43 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Makefile in /usr/ports Message-ID: <20011030175343.E9584@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0110301628140.6756-100000@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0110301628140.6756-100000@sdf.lonestar.org>
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> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:30:32 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Erik Sabowski <airyk@sdf.lonestar.org>
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Makefile in /usr/ports
>
> I installed the ports collection on my system but exapnding the ports.tgz
> file on the cdrom into /usr. I noticed that there was a makefile in
> /usr/ports, and it looked like it was to update the ports. Is that what it
> does? (i just ran 'make' with no options)
The makefile contains several targets. If you want to update the
ports collection, you'll have to say
> make update
(and you'll need to have /etc/make.conf plus the supfiles set up)
BTW, you can _read_ the makefile to get an idea what it does. It's
just text.
--
Roman
FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE
5:50PM up 7 days, 4:33, 16 users, load averages: 0.25, 0.30, 0.26
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