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Date:      Sat, 2 Dec 1995 20:50:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
To:        kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY)
Cc:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Minor change to make
Message-ID:  <199512030450.UAA04684@bubba.tribe.com>
In-Reply-To: <199512022227.WAA14667@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Dec 2, 95 05:27:40 pm

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> > > N.B. ClearMake, SGI, and Digital, makes all have include directives that 
> > > silently ignore a failure to find the include file, so this isn't a new 
> > 
> > ...as does gmake (which is available as a package), so you could use it
> > if you wanted to avoid rebuilding /usr/bin/make...
> 
> Humbug again.
> 
> Since it's 99&44/100ths of the way there already, why should I have to 
> tell people to go get gmake? Why can't the make that comes with the (next
> release of the) system "just do it"?

Hey, wait a minute, I agree with you! The FreeBSD make ought to have
this feature; in fact, I definately would argue for it as well.

I didn't mean to imply that you *should* use gmake, just that you *could*.

:-)

-Archie
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