Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 06:12:54 +1100 From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cross compilation goals. Message-ID: <19991119061254.G13376@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3833EE19.A7DC5935@simon-shapiro.org>; from Simon Shapiro on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:16:25AM -0500 References: <19991117184034.A53402@dragon.nuxi.com>, <199911180559.WAA21245@harmony.village.org> <3833C40B.EC5290CF@scc.nl> <19991118212234.E13376@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> <3833EE19.A7DC5935@simon-shapiro.org>
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On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:16:25AM -0500, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > At work I have to live with GNU make because of portability issues > > across Solaris, NT, Linux and FreeBSD. I'm tempted to suggest that we > > drop BSD make in favour of gmake. I bet a suggestion like that will > > wake people up. 8-) I'm only half joking. > > Why not? Does it work? Can it execute our current makefiles > correctly? I know ours make cannot run many for-gnu makefiles. All the wizardry in the FreeBSD makefiles is BSD make specific. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ john.birrell@cai.com john.birrell@opendirectory.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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