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Date:      Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:10:02 +0100
From:      Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
To:        navneet Upadhyay <navneet.upadhyay@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make not working gmake works
Message-ID:  <47B99FCA.9090408@bsdforen.de>
In-Reply-To: <1563a4fd0802180702y439a9fb1k6eaa059051f667d1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1563a4fd0802180702y439a9fb1k6eaa059051f667d1@mail.gmail.com>

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navneet Upadhyay wrote:
> Hi,
>      I have a Makefile . It works well with Linux versions when i use make
> command.The make command fails on FreeBSD but gmake works fine.
> 
> Any clues on this behavior?
> 
> Thanks,
> Navneet

Linux Distributions normally have GNU-Make installed as make. GNU-Make ist 
what you're running if you run gmake under FreeBSD. If you run make on 
FreeBSD you're running a variant of pmake, which has an entirely different 
syntax from GNU-Make.



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