Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:52:57 +0100 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: Eduardo Cerejo <ejcerejo@optonline.net> Cc: Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gcc and make not producing executable Message-ID: <47E1DF99.6050304@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <20080319193229.e56d0a0f.ejcerejo@optonline.net> References: <20080318225936.9ef5af16.ejcerejo@optonline.net> <47E0B4FA.1070605@boosten.org> <20080319162309.5fce0b9c.ejcerejo@optonline.net> <47E17C62.8040105@cs.okstate.edu> <20080319193229.e56d0a0f.ejcerejo@optonline.net>
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Eduardo Cerejo wrote: >> 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. From the make man page: PMake - A Tutorial. in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make Peter -- http://www.boosten.org
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