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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:32:29 -0400
From:      Eduardo Cerejo <ejcerejo@optonline.net>
To:        Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Gcc and make not producing executable
Message-ID:  <20080319193229.e56d0a0f.ejcerejo@optonline.net>
In-Reply-To: <47E17C62.8040105@cs.okstate.edu>
References:  <20080318225936.9ef5af16.ejcerejo@optonline.net> <47E0B4FA.1070605@boosten.org> <20080319162309.5fce0b9c.ejcerejo@optonline.net> <47E17C62.8040105@cs.okstate.edu>

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> On Linux systems, there is no base system 'make', so GNU make is
> installed as 'make'. On FreeBSD systems, there is a base system make
> that is maintained by the FreeBSD project, so GNU make is installed as
> 'gmake'. The main differences in making with them is that GNU make and
> FreeBSD make accept different arguments, and their makefile syntaxes
> have discrepancies.

What kind of documentation is available on FreeBSD's make, other than the man page?  I was browsing through /usr/share/doc/ but I didn't see anything related to make.  I saw pmake but not make.



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