FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

[Devin Teske]

On 10/1/10, Chetan Shukla <chetan.shukla at aricent.com> wrote:
> > I need to check the version of Make installed in FreeBSD.
> > make -v does not help here.
> >  What is the similar command in FreeBSD ?
> 
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 18:33 +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> gmake. On serious side there is no way to find version and
> freebsd make havent changed much in years...

On the command-line...

   strings `which make` | grep -B1 MAKE_VERSION

Or in a makefile...

   /usr/tmp/Makefile:
   all:
   	@echo "MAKE_VERSION='$(MAKE_VERSION)'"

   make
   MAKE_VERSION='5200408120'

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Devin Teske

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