9.3.1 "make" vs. "make depend"

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Tue Aug 23 19:35:18 UTC 2005


At 11:25 AM -0500 2005-08-23, Jeff Stevens wrote:

>  What is the difference with "depend"?  I get multiple errors running
>  depend but none running just make.  Doesn't make also compile the
>  source code as well as depend?

	There are certain code dependancies that are apparently not 
caught with a normal "make", so you have to do the "make depend" 
first, then "make", followed by "make install".

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