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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!pravda.sdsc.edu!news.cerf.net!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Suggestion (was Re: What's "FreeBSD"?) Date: 2 Aug 93 22:53:24 Organization: None. Utter Chaos. Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Aug2225324@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <22up8o$pvb@introl.introl.com> <22ut4j$53o@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <explorer.743637064@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> <CAsEBG.4tC@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <232m28$g2@nic.lth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: jh@efd.lth.se's message of 27 Jul 1993 07:38:47 GMT Gmake has several advantages over bsd-make, [...] I'd be interested to hear what they are. I've found Berkeley make to be an absolute joy to use compare to all the other versions I've used, and that includes GNU make. Things like `?=' and `.if make' I happen to find useful, and GNU make doesn't have anything equivalent. and it is supported by the FSF. It's `supported' by the FSF in the same sense that Berkeley make is `supported' by the NetBSD group--which is to say, `your bug may be fixed some time this century'. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!