Re: make vs. gmake

From: Kris Kennaway (kkenn_at_xor.obsecurity.org)
Date: 03/20/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 23:00:02 GMT

On 2004-03-19, Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
> Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar#delete2email#.org> wrote:
>> Sasa Stupar wrote:
>>> I am new to FreeBSD but old to linux. I am going to change one linux
>>> server with the freebsd one (ver.4.9). The question is: do I need to
>>> compile all the software with gmake or make?
>
>> That depends. BSD make and GNU make use different syntax, so some
>
> I generally use "make" (do not use the "different syntax" for portable
> code), except for working around bugs in BSD make. For instance it
> pretends to implement archive dependencies, but it's broken (it only
> works well enough to fool my configure script).
>
> That's the FreeBSD/NetBSD/etc version - vendor BSD-derived make programs
> work properly.

In which PR can I find your bug report? I looked but couldn't see it.

Kris

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