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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
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