On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:34:50AM +0100, Pankaj wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2002 13:23, Erik Trulsson wrote: > <snip> > > > > No, it is a feature of the makefiles. 'Make' itself doesn't know > > anything about fetching sources and so on. > > Most of the dirty work is done in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk which is > > included by the port makefiles. > > which means I can safely use a similar makefile and have it *nix specific > and also download what i need automatically. I may be asking dumb questions > cuz i dont know anything about Makefiles I better go RTFM <-- any links
One potential problem is that 'make' on different platforms can differ in many details. Some of the features of BSD make that are used by the portmakefiles for example are not supported by GNU make (which is used on Linux) GNU make OTOH supports some things not in BSD make. Writing complicated makefiles that are portable between different 'make' implementations is a non-trivial task. > > ThanX > -- > regards > Pankaj > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
