How do port Makefiles work

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"Nerius Landys" <nlandys at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to figure out how a port makefile configures, makes, makes
> install from a source tarball.

You'd better look at /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk for port specifics

> The port I'm interested in in particular is /usr/ports/x11/Terminal; I have
> it built and installed just fine using the ports system.  Now I'm trying to
> tweak the source code, build, and install locally in a home directory, all
> without using the ports system.  So, I've taken the archive
> Terminal-0.2.6.tar.bz2, unpacked it, and ran './configure
> --prefix=<PREFIXDIR>'.  Then I run 'make', and I get this error:

I guess it's because Terminal port contains `USE_GMAKE=	yes'