which make in freebsd?

Timothy Beyer beyert at cs.ucr.edu
Sun Nov 2 00:55:52 PST 2003


Hi, I was curious, which of the dozens of make programs does FreeBSD use? 
So far I'm guessing that its imake or pmake, but is it something else? Is there 
really a generic bsd 'make' program?

On another note, what make do you (as in everyone on the list) prefer, and 
why?

I've heard lots of people complain that XFree doesn't use gmake, but I just 
don't see whats wrong with imake... Of course, all the people who were 
complaining were Linux users, but this made me curious if there are really 
some distinguishing features of the gmake that set it above the rest... Or 
were they just biased?

Interested to hear your thoughts on this.

--Tim


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