[RFC] Removin the old make

Craig Rodrigues rodrigc at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 13 00:19:40 UTC 2015


On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:

>
> In FreeBSD-9.3 :
>   bmake is not default, merely there
>         -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  518032 Nov  5 16:58 /usr/bin/bmake*
>         -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  453176 Nov  5 16:58 /usr/bin/make*
>   & man make has No Warning people should migrate to bmake.
>
> FreeBSD-10.0
>   Has Only one /usr/bin/*make (& no make.old)
>   & No warning that it's a new make called bmake or what if any differences
>   might be from make in 9.
>
>
Well, there was *some* warning in the release notes:

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.3R/relnotes.html

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/relnotes.html

Of course, the fmake/bmake changes are buried in a whole
pile of other changes, so users may have found this easy to miss.
It's hard to describe the impacts of changes like this, and
have readable release notes.  Oh well. :(

--
Craig


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