make not working gmake works
Dominic Fandrey
kamikaze at bsdforen.de
Mon Feb 18 15:10:04 UTC 2008
navneet Upadhyay wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a Makefile . It works well with Linux versions when i use make
> command.The make command fails on FreeBSD but gmake works fine.
>
> Any clues on this behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> Navneet
Linux Distributions normally have GNU-Make installed as make. GNU-Make ist
what you're running if you run gmake under FreeBSD. If you run make on
FreeBSD you're running a variant of pmake, which has an entirely different
syntax from GNU-Make.
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