From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 25 23:58:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02183 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02156 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA16079; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:58:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: MALCOLM BOFF cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: make and gnu make In-Reply-To: <199803230923_MC2-37A8-CF83@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, MALCOLM BOFF wrote: > It is with some trepidation that I have to disagree with > your comments Doug. > > The ORA book "Managing Projects with Make" (Nutshell) > specifically states :- > > "This handbook is designed to teach you all the main > features of the augmented version of make distributed > with AT&T System V UNIX. This is the same version present > in Berkeley UNIX distributions." My experience tells otherwise; the Solaris make on our 2.6 box in CS doesn't like my makefiles, and we always have this problem of having to convert makefiles over to bmake format every time we add programs to the contributed source. I should disclaim that I am a make newbie. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message