which make in freebsd?
Dag-ErlingSmørgrav
des at des.no
Sun Nov 2 05:04:25 PST 2003
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.
DES
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