Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 01:11:27 -0800 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 Message-ID: <20020219091127.GM12136@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020219090609.GA81036@student.uu.se> References: <20020219093450.A13798@sarai.net> <20020219090609.GA81036@student.uu.se>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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