BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

Jonathon McKitrick jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org
Thu Nov 18 08:59:56 PST 2004


On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:32:21PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
: The minimal Makefile for building a program in FreeBSD looks something
: like this:
: 
: 	PROG=	foo
: 
: 	.include <bsd.prog.mk>

: 
: I can't even begin to describe all the 'make magic' that is hidden in
: /usr/share/mk/*.mk, but you can find out most of it by reading the
: comments in these make(1) include files.

This is exactly what I needed.  I wanted to experiment with building,
installing, linking, and the same with my own test 'libraries.'  It looks
like this is much easier than autoconf.



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