need help with vbox

[Desmond Chapman]

Gentleman, I agree with both of you.
Thanks for everything.
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> To: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> From: ivoras at freebsd.org
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:32:48 +0200
> Subject: Re: need help with vbox
> 
> Bruce Cran wrote:
>> Ivan Voras wrote:
>>> Desmond Chapman wrote:
>>>  
>>>> It's dependent upon kbuild. Since the developers have no intention of
>>>> fixing the issue, I would like a tutorial on converting the kmk file
>>>> to a normal Makefile.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> What is kmk? Google only shows it's used with VirtualBox and nowhere
>>> else. If it's something the authors of VirtualBox created, you'll have
>>> to ask them.
>>>   
>> 
>> Apparently it's the tool used to build kbuild
>> (http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/wiki/kmk, http://kbuild.sourceforge.net/)
>> projects.   It seems it's what the Linux kernel build system uses.
> 
> Well, this seems to sum it up:
> 
> """
> Why not use vanilla GNU make? There are several reasons:
> ...
> # Finally, because we can. :-)
> """
> 

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