From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 4:39:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C8337B98D for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:39:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 136thZ-0008LN-00; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:38:49 +0200 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:38:49 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Mac Cc: David Larkin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make & gmake Message-ID: <20000627133849.A32040@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <39588170.782CB0A1@DJL.co.uk> <200006271133.MAA03423@ngo.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200006271133.MAA03423@ngo.org.uk>; from mac@ngo.org.uk on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:33:13PM +0100 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue 2000-06-27 (12:33), Mac wrote: > > > > For the record, I think I've worked out what is going on. > > > > The resulting /usr/local/bin/make seems to do the job in PostgreSQL. > > > > I guess /usr/local/bin/make is gmake under another name. > > > Indeed. > > One of the single most confusing things in the whole GNU utilities. > > It's known as 'gmake' when being discussed (to distinguish it from all > other 'make's), but the executable's name is 'make'. Not if you use the port (like you're supposed to). Having gmake called 'make' would cause way too many headaches. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message