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Date:      Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:47:23 +0000
From:      Joe Holden <joe@joeholden.co.uk>
To:        Grzegorz Danecki <g.danecki@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gmake upgrade
Message-ID:  <457B2EEB.6000907@joeholden.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <41b95770612091344k5350afa9h16fc2a2104142215@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <41b95770612091344k5350afa9h16fc2a2104142215@mail.gmail.com>

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Grzegorz Danecki wrote:
> Hello list!
> 
> it may be a stupid question, but i'm a little bit scared before gmake
> upgrade. I'm not using portupgrade, everything is build from the ports
> tree,
> so, when some package is old, and there is newer version in ports, then
> make
> all && make deinstall && make install && make clean. It works pretty fine
> for now. But what about gmake?
> Will I be able to compile new gmake sources when I'll do `make deinstall in
> /usr/ports/devel/gmake` first?
> 
> Few details:
> 
> pkg_version | grep "<"
> gmake                               <
> 
> pkg_info | grep gmake
> gmake-3.80_2        GNU version of 'make' utility
> 
> the latest version in my ports tree is make-3.81
> 
> The system is FreeBSD 6.1 Release with latest patches
> 
> it can be a problem like chmod -x /bin/chmod, but maybe You have an idea?
> 

As far as make goes, that won't be a problem, gmake isn't present in the
base as you can see, bsd make is used for ports etc, gmake is only
installed if a port needs it.

HTH,
J



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