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Date:      Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:36:44 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compiling FreeBSD on Linux
Message-ID:  <20011106083644.A2190@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011106175916.V35710@k7.mavetju.org>
References:  <01cb01c1668e$1cea7080$4e05720a@wipro.com> <20011106175916.V35710@k7.mavetju.org>

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On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:59:16PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:11:46PM +0530, Venkata Rajesh Velamakanni wrote:
> > Recently I have downloaded FreeBSD and tried compiling sbin/routed 
> > on a Linux machine.
> > 
> > But I could not compile it as the Makefile syntax is slightly different. 
> > 
> > Does anyone know an option in make, which is compatible with FreeBSD..
> > or do I need to modify these makefiles.
> 
> I can tell you that...
> ... the *BSD Makefiles have a slightly different syntax than the GNU Makefiles
> ... the *BSD code will have non-linux-supported code in it
> ... you should have more luck on using a routed which was
>     shipped with your original Linux distribution, for example for Red
>     Hat: http://www.redhat.com/swr/src/routed-0.17-6.src.html
> 
> Edwin
> 
Edwin is right of course !
Doubly right on anything to do with "system" level things
like networking.

There is a version of FreeBSD make available for Linux I believe, if you are
hell bent on wasting your time. I believe it goes under the name of "pmake".

-- 
Regards
Cliff



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