make not working gmake works

Schiz0 schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 15:06:54 UTC 2008


On Feb 18, 2008 10:02 AM, navneet Upadhyay <navneet.upadhyay at gmail.com> 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

The FreeBSD "make" is different than linux's "make."
Linux uses GNU's make. BSD has it's own version.
"gmake" is the command of GNU make for bsd.


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