gmake upgrade

[Joe Holden]

Grzegorz Danecki wrote:
> Hello list!
> 
> it may be a stupid question, but i'm a little bit scared before gmake
> upgrade. I'm not using portupgrade, everything is build from the ports
> tree,
> so, when some package is old, and there is newer version in ports, then
> make
> all && make deinstall && make install && make clean. It works pretty fine
> for now. But what about gmake?
> Will I be able to compile new gmake sources when I'll do `make deinstall in
> /usr/ports/devel/gmake` first?
> 
> Few details:
> 
> pkg_version | grep "<"
> gmake                               <
> 
> pkg_info | grep gmake
> gmake-3.80_2        GNU version of 'make' utility
> 
> the latest version in my ports tree is make-3.81
> 
> The system is FreeBSD 6.1 Release with latest patches
> 
> it can be a problem like chmod -x /bin/chmod, but maybe You have an idea?
> 

As far as make goes, that won't be a problem, gmake isn't present in the
base as you can see, bsd make is used for ports etc, gmake is only
installed if a port needs it.

HTH,
J