FreeBSD Port: libxml2-2.5.11

[Bob Perry]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 18:46, Bob Perry wrote:
>  
>
>>Attempted to upgrade port libxml2 and was unsuccessful using 
>>"portupgrade" and the "make all" function. Received messages from 
>>various mirror sites indicating that "...local modification time does 
>>not match remote."
>>
>>Dependent/required ports also unable to be updated.
>>
>>Is this a problem that I can correct?
>>    
>>
>
># cd /usr/ports/textproc/libxml2
># make distclean
>
>Then try your build again.
>
>Joe
>

That was simple enough.  Makes me feel like it was something I should 
have known.  Sure it was.

The "make" tool is apparently a "must  learn" function.  I just opened 
the man page
and was directed to the "Make -A Tutorial" in 
/usr/share/doc/psd/12.make.  The tutorial discusses PMake.
Is this a recommended source of learninging material for make?   Can you 
suggest others?

Thanks so much for your help.

Bob