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
As others pointed out, you may run into portability problems with make(1) programs on different OS's. I'd suggest that you take a look at the OpenPackages project, http://www.openpackages.net/ - it seems to provide a make(1) utility, portable across many OS's and combining the best features of many make(1)'s. I am taking a look at it right now for a little project of mine that has to be portable across at least three Linux distributions, yet which I would prefer to develop under FreeBSD :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence contains exactly threee erors.
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