From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 13 00:34:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D58FB106566B for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:34:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:610:1908:1000:204:23ff:feb5:7e66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2ED8FC12 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:34:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from lux.student.utwente.nl (lux.student.utwente.nl [130.89.170.81]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m3D0Y4uq003362; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:34:14 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:34:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804130234.04004.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact servicedesk@icts.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Micha=EBl_Le_Barbier?= Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD's make under Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:34:22 -0000 On Saturday 12 April 2008, Micha=EBl Le Barbier wrote: > Hi folks, > > a few years ago, I tried to use FreeBSD's make under GNU/Linux, and > thanks > to `jpd' on c.u.b.f.misc, I managed to build FreeBSD 4.7's make under > some GNU/Linux systems. Having a couple makefiles using make's features > that were introduced after 4.7, I would like to build a more up-to-date, > make. > > Before I start, I am double checking nobody has done the job yet, and > nobody has it in the works. So, if you know anything about this, I > would be very happy you share the info with me! > > By the way, I am not sure the way FreeBSD's make program should be > called: the divine documentation in the PSD refers to `pmake', as > well as some source files, but Mac OS X uses `bsdmake', and in many > FreeBSD's docs it is just `make'. I know that ubuntu/debian systems have a package called freebsd5-buildutils= =20 which includes "freebsd-make", perhaps you can use some of there work. =20 Also, there were some commits recently to make specifically to make it easi= er=20 to build it on Linux. =2D-=20 Pieter de Goeje