Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 14:04:13 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Timothy Beyer <beyert@cs.ucr.edu> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which make in freebsd? Message-ID: <xzpfzh6apma.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20031102010136.44997855.beyert@cs.ucr.edu> (Timothy Beyer's message of "Sun, 2 Nov 2003 01:01:36 -0800") References: <20031102010136.44997855.beyert@cs.ucr.edu>
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Timothy Beyer <beyert@cs.ucr.edu> writes: > Hi, I was curious, which of the dozens of make programs does FreeBSD > use? So far I'm guessing that its imake or pmake, but is it > something else? Is there really a generic bsd 'make' program? imake is not a make(1) implementation, it's a Makefile generator. > I've heard lots of people complain that XFree doesn't use gmake, but I ju= st=20 > don't see whats wrong with imake... Of course, all the people who were=20 > complaining were Linux users, but this made me curious if there are reall= y=20 > some distinguishing features of the gmake that set it above the rest... O= r=20 > were they just biased? gmake is inferior in most ways that matter. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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