On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 14:54:41 +0000, Paul Whiting wrote:
> I am new to RiscBSD. How do I go about compiling something? I have
> downloaded a tar.gz file from the Internet, and used gunzip and tar to
> extract lots of files. There are a number of .c and .h files and a file
> called makefile. I tried 'make makefile' and was told that it was up to
> date, I then tried 'cc *.*' and got a string of error messages telling me
> that it could not find various files. What should I do?

Read the documentation. There should be a README or INSTALL file.
If there is none, "make" should be sufficient.

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