Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:07:09 -0500 From: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu> To: kline@tao.thought.org (Gary Kline) Cc: dholland@cs.toronto.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd make to gnu make conversion, anyone?? Message-ID: <98Nov12.140718edt.37768-2936@qew.cs.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <199811120641.WAA04442@tao.thought.org> from "Gary Kline" at Nov 12, 98 01:41:58 am
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> > You might be better off compiling bsd make on whatever box you're
> > using.
>
> Can't. We're doing the entire BSD built using
> gmake. ....
uh, why?
if you're building the entire tree it's *much* less work to port make
than to change all the makefiles.
Been there, done that, have the t-shirts..
> Is there a cleaner way using /bin/sh commands
> within gmake? Something like
>
> for $${lang} in $${LANGS}
> do
> ....
> done
Yes. As this has already been posted (twice) I won't repeat it...
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