Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 01:02:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> Cc: Chetan Shukla <chetan.shukla@aricent.com>, Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20101002060241.GF40148@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinHLLaEmQLPK8yWkfC_P_JpbkmH6xCuTE6XZh58@mail.gmail.com> References: <DF735188ED91BD458FA0E0C17929339F954A8F32@GUREXMB01.ASIAN.AD.ARICENT.COM> <AANLkTinzFT-EMNZrhccvObE%2BmWMQkJ917xsijUzHGfSP@mail.gmail.com> <1285967910.14091.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <AANLkTinHLLaEmQLPK8yWkfC_P_JpbkmH6xCuTE6XZh58@mail.gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 01), Paul B Mahol said: > On 10/1/10, Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> wrote: > > On 10/1/10, Chetan Shukla <chetan.shukla@aricent.com> wrote: > >> > I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD. make -v > >> > does not help here. > >> > What is the similar command in FreeBSD ? > >> > >> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:33 +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote: > >> gmake. On serious side there is no way to find version and freebsd make > >> havent changed much in years... > > > > On the command-line... > > > > strings `which make` | grep -B1 MAKE_VERSION > > > > Or in a makefile... > > > > /usr/tmp/Makefile: > > all: > > @echo "MAKE_VERSION='$(MAKE_VERSION)'" > > > > make > > MAKE_VERSION='5200408120' > > Nice. Even nicer: make -V MAKE_VERSION Not that the version really helps; there have been many additions to make since 2004. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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