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Date:      Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:10:28 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
Cc:        Stewart MacLund <sundie@lunaticfringe.org>, Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HUrm...  Odd "gmake" error...
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.990909180841.71753C-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990909155133.A41050@wopr.caltech.edu>

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On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Matthew Hunt wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 06:46:41PM -0400, Stewart MacLund wrote:
> 
> >     And, i thought gmake was a good drop in replacement for make?  No?  Odd.
> > Again, it has always worked before.
> 
> gmake is simply not at all a replacement for make (nor the other
> way around).  If gmake ever worked in our tree before, that was a
> coincidence.

I'd call it an act of God, myself.  gmake is a wonderful example of GNU
feeping creaturism, and being different just for the sake of being GNU.

David
> 



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