Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:40:23 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: BSD Make vs. GNU Make Message-ID: <20020115214022.GL46308@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020115211225.GF7588@raggedclown.net> References: <76814591@toto.iv> <15424.21077.645527.90299@guru.mired.org> <20020115211225.GF7588@raggedclown.net>
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In the last episode (Jan 15), Cliff Sarginson said: > Mmm. > I have heard of BSD make. > I have heard of Gnu make. > I have used all sorts of other makes. > The standard ones on Solaris, HP, BSD, Aix ... are all different in one > way or another. (In fact almost anything by HP in terms of the basic > tools looks like it should have been left off the ark when the rain > started falling). > > For portability GNU is a better choice if you work in a > multi-versions-of-unix environment as I do. It was, last time I > looked, available on all the platforms I was using. For portability use automake, which will generate Makefiles that any make can run. That way you don't have to force yuour users to install anything. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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