Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1062 mails)

[stugreen@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Stu Green)]

Steve,
<BR><B><I>make</I></B> is a command.  It usually takes options that
can be found in the <B>Makefile</B> file.  That's right, the
<BR>UNIX convention is to name the file contianing the compile and
installation options that will be used
<BR>by the make command is name <B>Makefile.  </B>Typical arguments
to <B>make </B>are: all, <program_name>, install, dep, clean and dist.
<BR>You're absolutely coorect in noting that there isn't a man page. 
If you peer into /usr/info, however, you will find a group of files named
tar.info-X.gz. Just gunzip 'em and read the tome at you pleasure.
<BR>Regards,
<BR>Stu