On Sun, 02 May 2004, "Mark Thomas" <mark@theswamp.org> wrote:
> I went back and looked a 'man make' but didn't see anything about 'make 
> update'.  

It's good you didn't see anything like that, because it's not there.  ;-) 
Ditto 'make install', 'make deinstall', inter alia.  

In 'make update', 'update' is a target.  The command says to make: "look
in [Mm]akefile for a target named 'update', and do whatever that says.  

For an explanation of what the targets in the pkgsrc makefiles are, see 
/usr/pkgsrc/Packages.txt.  

HTH.

--jkl