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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:10:52 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        David Larkin <David.Larkin@djl.co.uk>
Cc:        jseger@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: make & gmake
Message-ID:  <20000627131052.A31377@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <39587B61.718C7F5D@DJL.co.uk>; from David.Larkin@djl.co.uk on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:01:05AM %2B0100
References:  <39587B61.718C7F5D@DJL.co.uk>

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On Tue 2000-06-27 (11:01), David Larkin wrote:
> I'm a little confused here.
> I'm trying to install PostgreSQL which uses gmake.
> 
> So I then went to the FreeBSD ports and found
> gmake-3.79 which I then ftp'd -
> however the ftp'd file is called make rather than gmake
> 
> See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/devel/gmake
> 
> I've installed it OK , but at the end of the day I get an
> executable /usr/local/bin/make
> which I guess I had all along.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions would be most welcome.

Why didn't you use the gmake port?

GNU make isn't compatible with most 'make's, and would conflict with our
'make' (causing endless problems), so it's called 'gmake' on FreeBSD.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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