From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 06:34:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C526216A4CF for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 06:34:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF3843D5F for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 06:34:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from [212.43.209.210] (du-209-210.nat.adsl.claranet.fr [212.43.209.210]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AD12A6EC0; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:34:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41AE3586.70103@gautherot.net> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:20:06 +0100 From: Olivier Gautherot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jermaine McBean References: <41AB4EE2.4080702@pace.edu> <7603e5d804112909293d5dda1@mail.gmail.com> <41AB8A11.1060109@pace.edu> In-Reply-To: <41AB8A11.1060109@pace.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Wouter van Rooij cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing GNU Make X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 06:34:41 -0000 Hi folks! Jermaine McBean wrote: > > I typed rehash and it doesn't do anything. I did a make --version and > it doesn't show me a version. > I found the port and installed it. It works now. I just don't > understand that make install doesn't work > Wouter van Rooij wrote: > >>> I'm trying to install GNU Make 3.8 on FreeBSD 4.10. Everything install >>> fine, but I still get the FreeBSD version of make. I don't know >>> where it >>> installed to. I do: >>> ./configure >>> make >>> make install >>> make clean >>> >> >> >> Stupid question: have you tried rehash? >> Otherwise go to ftp.freebsd.org en get the tbz ( package of gnu make ) >> and run pkg_add file >> Then it must work... if it don't try rehash >> >> Wouter van Rooij > If you run FreeBSD, you should expect the BSD version of make as a standard. GNU make is called gmake and you should find it at /usr/local/bin/gmake. Here is the result of {,g}make --version on my machine: bash-2.05b$ make --version make: illegal option -- - usage: make [-BPSXeiknqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-E variable] [-f makefile] [-I directory] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable] [variable=value] [target ...] bash-2.05b$ gmake --version GNU Make 3.80 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. bash-2.05b$ Hope it helps Olivier