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From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Monday 20 October 2003 01:39, T.M. Sommers wrote:
> Is /usr/share/mk/bsd.prog.mk intended for use by any old program, or
> should it only be used only for FreeBSD itself?   Obviously, using it
> would be less portable, but there are times when that does not matter.

We use it at work with fairly good results.

It IS portable since you can copy those makefiles and build pmake on your 
destination machine :)

(I have done this on a Linux box trivially)

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