From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 22 23:21:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14604 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:21:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14593 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:21:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA12677; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:21:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:21:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: MALCOLM BOFF cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: make and gnu make In-Reply-To: <199803200715_MC2-3768-EB10@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, MALCOLM BOFF wrote: > Can anyone tell me whether or not gnu make provides support for the > tilde (~) rules as used by SCCS or not as the FreeBSD 'make' does not. No clue. > As an aside the FreeBSD make seems very non-standard from the versions > of 'make' that I have always used in the past and certainly doesn't look > like the 'make' described in ORA. Why is that ?? The FreeBSD make comes directly out of 4.4BSD, and is thus dubbed ``BSD make''. It is quite strict in syntax. I believe the ORA book uses Solaris make which is a bastardization of make. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message