From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 18 12: 4:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FACD15487 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:04:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA09336 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:04:24 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id VAA64649 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:04:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A83C115532 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:32:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) id GAA23348; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 06:12:54 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jb) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 06:12:54 +1100 From: John Birrell To: Simon Shapiro Cc: John Birrell , Marcel Moolenaar , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cross compilation goals. Message-ID: <19991119061254.G13376@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> References: <19991117184034.A53402@dragon.nuxi.com>, <199911180559.WAA21245@harmony.village.org> <3833C40B.EC5290CF@scc.nl> <19991118212234.E13376@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> <3833EE19.A7DC5935@simon-shapiro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <3833EE19.A7DC5935@simon-shapiro.org>; from Simon Shapiro on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:16:25AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:16:25AM -0500, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > At work I have to live with GNU make because of portability issues > > across Solaris, NT, Linux and FreeBSD. I'm tempted to suggest that we > > drop BSD make in favour of gmake. I bet a suggestion like that will > > wake people up. 8-) I'm only half joking. > > Why not? Does it work? Can it execute our current makefiles > correctly? I know ours make cannot run many for-gnu makefiles. All the wizardry in the FreeBSD makefiles is BSD make specific. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ john.birrell@cai.com john.birrell@opendirectory.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message