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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:54:31 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Comments on pmake diffs for building on Linux
Message-ID:  <20080306055431.GV68971@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47CEFCA0.1060600@chuckr.org>
References:  <20080303.224256.635730757.imp@bsdimp.com> <200803041701.36466.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20080303.235128.41690803.imp@bsdimp.com> <47CEFCA0.1060600@chuckr.org>

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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:03:44PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
>I bet a very large portion of those among us who are professional codes
>have had been forced at some time to port our make, whether it was the
>original pmake, or the up-to-date version (I did the most up to date I
>could manage.

I looked at porting pmake to Tru64 about 9 years ago and rapidly
decided I couldn't justify the effort (I only wanted to port a couple
of FreeBSD utilities) and re-wrote the relevant Makefiles.  I applaud
Warner's efforts here as increasing the portability of FreeBSD
utilities is very worthwhile.

>The politicians amongst us will kill it, which I'm very osrry to predict

I hope not.

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Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

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