From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 20 03:53:01 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 E758A106564A for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:53:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl (smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl [213.51.130.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 989CA8FC1B for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:53:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [213.51.130.190] (port=57045 helo=smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl) by smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcBpr-0004Xj-QU; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:52:59 +0100 Received: from cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl ([84.25.65.88]:4982 helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp1.groni1.gr.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcBpr-0000oL-1g; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:52:59 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BAB939877; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:52:58 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47E1DF99.6050304@boosten.org> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:52:57 +0100 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eduardo Cerejo 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> In-Reply-To: <20080319193229.e56d0a0f.ejcerejo@optonline.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080320-0, 03/20/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) Cc: Reid Linnemann , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gcc and make not producing executable 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: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:53:02 -0000 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