From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 18:54:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.129.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B25B537BE0C for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom2-046.telepath.com [216.14.2.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88B7E6E3F0C for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 50301 invoked by uid 100); 17 Aug 2000 22:26:54 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14748.26286.854292.12446@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:26:54 -0500 (CDT) To: "Chris McNett" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Just curious... In-Reply-To: <23584637@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris McNett writes: > Why does the ports collection insist on using BSD make instead of GNU make? > You'd think that the world could agree that GNU make is the more commonly > used of the two and should be the standard. Because BSD make is installed with the system, and GNU make isn't. This also means that BSD make is the more commonly used of the two - at least on BSD systems. If you don't like the BSD tool set, there are open source distributions that use the GNU one. I even vaguelly recall someone talking about doing a *BSD distribution that used a BSD kernel and a GNU toolset.