Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 13:44:23 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> Cc: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>, FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Roadmap for perl upgrades to STABLE? Message-ID: <3A547E37.846A303F@inpharmatica.co.uk> References: <200012260828.eBQ8SFF09546@gratis.grondar.za> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012270006380.2693-100000@browning.pennasoft.com> <20001226231547.R72273@elvis.mu.org>
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Bill Fumerola wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:08:53AM -0500, Chris BeHanna wrote:
>
> > Not that I'm a fan of the GPL, but wouldn't importation of gmake
> > into the toolchain that gets installed by default help this problem
> > along enormously?
>
> What can it do that bmake can't?
>
Automatically generate dependencies and then apply them as part of a higher
level target all in the same `make' invocation? ie. `make depend' can be a
sub-target of `make all'. That's about the only feature of gmake I've ever
used and missed having in BSD make.
Matthew
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