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From: Gautham Ganapathy <gautham@lisphacker.org>
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Subject: Re: Need bsd make for AIX
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:40 PM,  <srividya.k@tcs.com> wrote:
> We have some open source code for RPC calls - DCE that has c programs and
> corresponding makefiles.
> When we tried gmake or make ( AIX make) , we were getting syntax errors.
> We found that all the makefiles had syntax that corresponds to makeutility
> of BSD?
>
> Do you have any alternative?
> Is there any BSD make utility that can be installed in AIX machine?
>
> Srividya K
> Tata Consultancy Services
> Mailto: srividya.k@tcs.com
> Website: http://www.tcs.com
> ____________________________________________

Perhaps you could contact the authors of the code you are trying to
compile and ask them how they did it. They might have a
straightforward solution and maybe a reason as to why they chose BSD
make

Also, have you tried bmake?

Regards
Gautham Ganapathy
http://lisphacker.org