Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> writes: > On 2010-Jan-24 10:54:34 +1300, François Bissey <f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz> > wrote: >>On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:26:45 Aleksej Saushev wrote: >>> FreeBSD's make isn't bmake. It is important to remember that this >>> difference exists at the very least. >> >>Right it is actually NetBSD make, are there very important differences? > > AFAIK, both NetBSD and FreeBSD just inherited PMake from 4.4BSD.
When did that happen? Look at the calendar, it's been 15 years of development since. > I don't believe any major changes have been made to FreeBSD's make. > Some of NetBSD's enhancements to pmake have been imported into FreeBSD > but there's never been a wholesale import of make. > > Note that trying to write non-trivial code that is portable between > GNU make and BSD make is virtually impossible because they have > different conditional and include language. You're wrong here too. And the main source of problems is your assumption that there exists some common "BSD make". -- HE CE3OH... -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
