Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:34:03 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Micha=EBl_Le_Barbier?= <michael.le_barbier@laposte.net> Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD's make under Linux Message-ID: <200804130234.04004.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <E204EAB0-A79F-4B01-A7FF-4D51FEAA2631@laposte.net> References: <E204EAB0-A79F-4B01-A7FF-4D51FEAA2631@laposte.net>
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On Saturday 12 April 2008, Micha=EBl Le Barbier wrote: > Hi folks, > > a few years ago, I tried to use FreeBSD's make under GNU/Linux, and > thanks > to `jpd' on c.u.b.f.misc, I managed to build FreeBSD 4.7's make under > some GNU/Linux systems. Having a couple makefiles using make's features > that were introduced after 4.7, I would like to build a more up-to-date, > make. > > Before I start, I am double checking nobody has done the job yet, and > nobody has it in the works. So, if you know anything about this, I > would be very happy you share the info with me! > > By the way, I am not sure the way FreeBSD's make program should be > called: the divine documentation in the PSD refers to `pmake', as > well as some source files, but Mac OS X uses `bsdmake', and in many > FreeBSD's docs it is just `make'. I know that ubuntu/debian systems have a package called freebsd5-buildutils= =20 which includes "freebsd-make", perhaps you can use some of there work. =20 Also, there were some commits recently to make specifically to make it easi= er=20 to build it on Linux. =2D-=20 Pieter de Goeje
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