On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:30:12PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: > I am looking for documentation on the make command > that is used to install ports. > The man page says there is an tutorial, but does > not say where it's at or how to get to it. > > make search= > make install clean > make all-depends-list > make index > make fetch-recursive > > and the list go on and on.
Most of the popular make(1) targets are documented in the ports(7) man page.
The tutorial on make(1) itself is /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz
(or you might have a PostScript version there instead, depending on
how you set the PRINTERDEVICE variable in /etc/make.conf)
There's also some stuff in the Developer's Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html
However, the best tutorial if you want to progress beyond those
introductory treatments is simply to study the way Makefiles are used
in /usr/ports and /usr/src -- the files in /usr/share/mk and
/usr/ports/Mk are where it's at.
Cheers,
Matthew
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