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#! rnews 1446 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!kirin.wwa.com!news.ucdavis.edu!relay.nuxi.com!obrien From: David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with utility identification.. Date: 3 Feb 1997 08:17:57 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5d46vl$46a$2@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <97030.1445343CQBJOZ@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu> <5crksj$62a@bofh.noc.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nuxi.ucdavis.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 970120] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34642 Ron Echeverri <rone@bofh.noc.best.net> wrote: : In article <97030.1445343CQBJOZ@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu>, : ishwar rattan <3CQBJOZ@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu> wrote: : >How do I fugure out if /usr/bin/make is gnu-make? : >Is there a way to figure these things out? I am running : >stock FreeBSD-2.1.5. : It's not (it's "classic" make). gmake can be found in the ports : collection. It's not really "classic" make. BSD make came from the Sprite project at UCB. It is a total rewrite, and is much more powerful than "classic" make (although at times it can be a little incompatable). The most "classic" make for FreeBSD is probably dmake in the ports/packages. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)