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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:26:28 +0300
From:      "Dima Sorkin" <dima.sorkin@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   make and gmake on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <e40293600707261326x2f65e4a6p46361ae20ab79fc8@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi.
 I have a FreeBSD 6.2, installed it from the distribution disks, no
changes by me.

There is a "make" and a "gmake" installed on it. They report that they
are the same programm, but in fact they behave completely different.
In fact only "gmake" behaves
like "GNU make" should behave and only with "gmake"
I succeed to build serious projects.

 What happens here ?  What I the "make", where did it come from ?

How do I cause to system "make" behave as "gmake" ?

Thanks, regards,
 Dima.

P.S.  see their output:
[dsorkin@eml5 /usr/home/dsorkin]$ make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-portbld-freebsd6.2
[dsorkin@eml5 /usr/home/dsorkin]$ gmake --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-portbld-freebsd6.2
[dsorkin@eml5 /usr/home/dsorkin]$ which make
/usr/bin/make
[dsorkin@eml5 /usr/home/dsorkin]$ which gmake
/usr/local/bin/gmake
[dsorkin@eml5 /usr/home/dsorkin]$ diff /usr/bin/make /usr/local/bin/gmake
Binary files /usr/bin/make and /usr/local/bin/gmake differ
[dsorkin@eml5 /usr/home/dsorkin]$



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