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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 03:10:47 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 11 Message-ID: <30ADBF37.2F26DCCF@FreeBSD.org> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <DI37qp.Jyo@ritz.mordor.com> <48dnoj$55s@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <MICHAELV.95Nov16213746@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <48j0j9$p56@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Clint Olsen <olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8929 comp.unix.advocacy:11013 comp.unix.misc:19493 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8842 That's a ridiculous idea, since GNU make doesn't do the *same things* that BSD make does. It's easy to think that there would be room for only one make if all makes were created equal, but they're not. If we ever came up with a make that combined the best features of both, I'd be interested. For now, bmake has the ability to create macro files and such that don't look like the forest of spaghetti that GNU make macro files look like. GNU make is the wider used, due to its easy portability to multiple platforms. Combine, perhaps. Throw one away? Hah, in your dreams! -- Jordan