From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 4:13:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A99F37BF7B for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:13:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 51555 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2000 11:12:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 27 Jun 2000 11:12:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 6939 invoked by uid 211); 27 Jun 2000 11:12:58 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:42:58 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: David Larkin Cc: jseger@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make & gmake Message-ID: <20000627164258.A6919@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <39587B61.718C7F5D@DJL.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39587B61.718C7F5D@DJL.co.uk>; from David.Larkin@djl.co.uk on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:01:05AM +0100 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test2 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Larkin said on Jun 27, 2000 at 11:01:05: > 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. Did you install via the ports, or build and install it yourself? According to the PLIST file in the port directory, the port would have installed it as gmake. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message