Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 12:00:24 +0000
From: Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie>
To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami), freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports/6341: make install uses ``make'' instead of ${MAKE} causing package registration to fail
Message-ID: <199804191100.MAA00282@indigo.ie>
In-Reply-To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) "Re: ports/6341: make install uses ``make'' instead of ${MAKE} causing package registration to fail" (Apr 19, 2:00am)
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On Apr 19, 2:00am, Satoshi Asami wrote:
} Subject: Re: ports/6341: make install uses ``make'' instead of ${MAKE} cau
> * On my system /usr/local/bin/make is a symlink to /usr/local/bin/gmake,
> * /usr/local/bin/pmake is a symlink to /usr/bin/make and /usr/local/bin
> * comes before /usr/bin in my PATH. Therefore ``make'' executes GNU
> * make and ``pmake'' executes PMake.
>
> I certainly won't object changing bsd.port.mk (thanks for the patch),
> but having /usr/local/bin in front of /usr/bin is a good way to get
> your build killed in any case. I am surprised that the make symlink
> is the only one that tripped you up. :)
Well, there are only a few other utilities in /usr/local/bin which
replace the ones in /usr/bin, such as GNU awk, find, m4, and Perl
5.0, with the exception of Perl I believe these are compatable
with the default FreeBSD binary. If I run into problems, I'll look
here first though :)
Thanks,
Niall
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