From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 12 11:08:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09424 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from yonge.cs.toronto.edu (yonge.cs.toronto.edu [128.100.2.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA09381 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:07:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dholland@cs.toronto.edu) Received: from qew.cs.toronto.edu ([128.100.2.15]) by yonge.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <86508-8537>; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:07:34 -0500 Received: by qew.cs.toronto.edu id <37768-2936>; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:07:18 -0500 Subject: Re: bsd make to gnu make conversion, anyone?? From: David Holland To: kline@tao.thought.org (Gary Kline) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:07:09 -0500 Cc: dholland@cs.toronto.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811120641.WAA04442@tao.thought.org> from "Gary Kline" at Nov 12, 98 01:41:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <98Nov12.140718edt.37768-2936@qew.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > You might be better off compiling bsd make on whatever box you're > > using. > > Can't. We're doing the entire BSD built using > gmake. .... uh, why? if you're building the entire tree it's *much* less work to port make than to change all the makefiles. Been there, done that, have the t-shirts.. > Is there a cleaner way using /bin/sh commands > within gmake? Something like > > for $${lang} in $${LANGS} > do > .... > done Yes. As this has already been posted (twice) I won't repeat it... -- - David A. Holland | (please continue to send non-list mail to dholland@cs.utoronto.ca | dholland@hcs.harvard.edu. yes, I moved.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message