From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 20 11:35:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B1E37B4EC for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:35:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (yogotech.nokia.com [4.22.66.156]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA17481; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:35:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05830; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:30:32 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14994.50647.712920.261989@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:30:31 -0700 (MST) To: Jason Brazile Cc: imp@village.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make bug? (dependency names with '$') In-Reply-To: <200102201548.QAA01397@disco.netcetera.ch> References: <200102201548.QAA01397@disco.netcetera.ch> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Brazile writes: > > : I want to construct a portable Makefile to build a java application. > > > > That's not possible. Java specifies a half assed make system as part > > of the language, so it is nearly impossible to use another make system > > on top of it unless you are willing to live with a whole slew of > > problems. That's not true. I built a 100K line application using make w/out any problems. (It builds on Win9X, NT, FreeBSD, and Solaris). Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message