Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:26:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Chris McNett" <chrismcnett@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Just curious... Message-ID: <14748.26286.854292.12446@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <23584637@toto.iv>
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Chris McNett writes: > Why does the ports collection insist on using BSD make instead of GNU make? > You'd think that the world could agree that GNU make is the more commonly > used of the two and should be the standard. Because BSD make is installed with the system, and GNU make isn't. This also means that BSD make is the more commonly used of the two - at least on BSD systems. If you don't like the BSD tool set, there are open source distributions that use the GNU one. I even vaguelly recall someone talking about doing a *BSD distribution that used a BSD kernel and a GNU toolset. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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