From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 21:28:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AF2537B980 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:28:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 13069 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2000 04:28:23 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 17 Aug 2000 04:28:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 4101 invoked by uid 211); 17 Aug 2000 04:28:22 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:58:22 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Chris McNett Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just curious... Message-ID: <20000817095822.B4024@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Chris McNett , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from chrismcnett@hotmail.com on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:57:02PM +0000 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.31 i486 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris McNett said on Aug 16, 2000 at 23:57:02: > Why does the ports collection insist on using BSD make instead of GNU make? > You'd think that the world could agree that GNU make is the more commonly > used of the two and should be the standard. It doesn't insist. With packages that require GNU make, it uses GNU make (and installs that first if it's not there already). Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message