which make in freebsd?

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

Timothy Beyer <beyert at cs.ucr.edu> writes:
> 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?

imake is not a make(1) implementation, it's a Makefile generator.

> 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?

gmake is inferior in most ways that matter.

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