From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 13:40:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA4C37B417 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:40:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0FLeN812923; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:40:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:40:23 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: BSD Make vs. GNU Make Message-ID: <20020115214022.GL46308@dan.emsphone.com> References: <76814591@toto.iv> <15424.21077.645527.90299@guru.mired.org> <20020115211225.GF7588@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020115211225.GF7588@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 15), Cliff Sarginson said: > Mmm. > I have heard of BSD make. > I have heard of Gnu make. > I have used all sorts of other makes. > The standard ones on Solaris, HP, BSD, Aix ... are all different in one > way or another. (In fact almost anything by HP in terms of the basic > tools looks like it should have been left off the ark when the rain > started falling). > > For portability GNU is a better choice if you work in a > multi-versions-of-unix environment as I do. It was, last time I > looked, available on all the platforms I was using. For portability use automake, which will generate Makefiles that any make can run. That way you don't have to force yuour users to install anything. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message