FW: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

[Paul B Mahol]

On 10/1/10, Devin Teske <dteske at vicor.com> wrote:
> 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'

Nice.
>
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