From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 17 14:19:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA08751 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:19:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA08726; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:19:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA03964; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 17:18:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA09104; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 17:19:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 17:19:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: Marty Leisner cc: Chuck Robey , Jacques Hugo , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makefile howto In-Reply-To: <9710171829.AA08860@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Marty Leisner wrote: > While not specifically dealing with BSD make, the GNU make manual > is an excellent place...and gnu make is an excellent tool. /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/* is probably better. GNU make and BSD make are really two very different animals. Actually, I'm not sure I really like the direction that GNU is trying to take build configuration. I would much rather see them try and encourage a make using something similar to our /usr/share/mk/* than try to circumvent the whole idea with huge cumbering monstrocities named auto*. To be fair, I'll use autoconfig, and it's better than nothing (intended as a compliment, not an insult), my religious differences or no. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk