How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

[Chetan Shukla]

Thanks everyone for the guidance.
I got the VERSION number as 5200408120
Does it mean it has make-3.81?

Also could someone provide guidance on
How to run code(C C++) written for Linux/Solaris
On FreeBSD machine without changing Makefiles?

Thanks & Regards,
Chetan

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson at allantgroup.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 11:33 AM
To: Paul B Mahol
Cc: Devin Teske; Chetan Shukla; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

In the last episode (Oct 01), Paul B Mahol said:
> 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.

Even nicer:

make -V MAKE_VERSION

Not that the version really helps; there have been many additions to make
since 2004.

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        Dan Nelson
        dnelson at allantgroup.com

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