From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 23 06:24:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20960 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 06:24:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hil-img-3.compuserve.com (hil-img-3.compuserve.com [149.174.177.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA20953 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 06:24:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Malcolm_Boff@compuserve.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by hil-img-3.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.10) id JAA10126; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:24:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:23:13 -0500 From: MALCOLM BOFF Subject: Re: make and gnu make To: all Cc: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <199803230923_MC2-37A8-CF83@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id GAA20956 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is with some trepidation that I have to disagree with your comments Doug. The ORA book "Managing Projects with Make" (Nutshell) specifically states :- "This handbook is designed to teach you all the main features of the augmented version of make distributed with AT&T System V UNIX. This is the same version present in Berkeley UNIX distributions." RE: Re: make and gnu make > On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, MALCOLM BOFF wrote: >> Can anyone tell me whether or not gnu make provides support for the >> tilde (~) rules as used by SCCS or not as the FreeBSD 'make' does not. > No clue. >> As an aside the FreeBSD make seems very non-standard from the versions >> of 'make' that I have always used in the past and certainly doesn't look >> like the 'make' described in ORA. Why is that ?? > The FreeBSD make comes directly out of 4.4BSD, and is thus dubbed ``BSD > make''. It is quite strict in syntax. I believe the ORA book uses > Solaris make which is a bastardization of make. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message