Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis (03-May-01 21:52:22):

> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:57:50PM -0400, John wrote:
>> The make fetch-list | sh, make, and make install is all done
>> automatically if you just type make install.

> Thats not really true; make fetch-list | sh will fetch all the
> source tar files at a time, keeping your network connection busy;
> this is important for people with dialup connections, else you'll
> pay for N timeout periods instead of just one.

Correct.

> (But I agree that make install can be used without calling make
> first.)

"make" defaults to "make build", which makes all targets before
"build" (fetch, checksum, ...). This is clearly said in packages.txt.

    make fetch
    make checksum
    make extract
    make patch
    make configure
    make build

"make install" would be the next "make", but it's not said that this
also make automatically all targets from fetch to install.

... or does it (at least it looks like) ... ?

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