Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:58:56 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: alk@pobox.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PETSc Message-ID: <19981002205856.25864@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <19981003112227.S2176@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Oct 10, 1998 at 11:22:27AM %2B0930 References: <13845.8432.160567.743719@avalon.east> <19981002143756.08043@right.PCS> <19981003112227.S2176@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Oct 10, 1998 at 11:22:27AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 2 October 1998 at 14:37:56 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > On Oct 10, 1998 at 01:53:00PM -0500, Tony Kimball wrote: > >> from http://www.msc.anl.gov: > >> > >> We no longer actively support FreeBSD or the Intel Paragon.. If you > >> are really need these machines with PETSc and it is important to you, > >> please send mail to petsc-maint@mcs.anl.gov and we will provide you > >> with the bmake files. If you currently use FreeBSD, we highly > >> recommend switching to Linux; we plan to provide strong Linux support > >> in the future. > > > > They also say: > > > > One must use gnumake, not the freeBSD make. The freeBSD > > make was heavily modified from real make and is essentially > > worthless; it should not even be called make! > > > > Showing a certain bias (and ignorance) here, aren't they? > > Well, you must be looking at a whole different web. My DNS can't find > www.msc.anl.gov, so I tried http://www.mcs.anl.gov. But there's no > mention of FreeBSD on that page. I believe it was http://www.mcs.anl.gov -> software -> petsc -> machines (sorry, I don't have the url handy right now) Also, IIRC, BSD make (pmake) took a lot of pains to remain compliant with "basic" make, so I feel that this was an unwarranted slam. (Yes, I did send off a note to the maintainers). -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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