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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc: Pankaj <pankaj@sarai.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: make in freebsd
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* Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> [020219 01:06] wrote:
> 
> One potential problem is that 'make' on different platforms can differ
> in many details.
> Some of the features of BSD make that are used by the portmakefiles for
> example are not supported by GNU make (which is used on Linux) GNU make
> OTOH supports some things not in BSD make.
> 
> Writing complicated makefiles that are portable between different
> 'make' implementations is a non-trivial task.

Yes, but both BSD and GNU make are fairly portable so it's not that
big of a problem.

-Alfred

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