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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 29 Jan 1997 14:21:38 -0800
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc.
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References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5ckluo$mbl@josie.abo.fi> <32EE6127.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <5cnl06$ket@josie.abo.fi>
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In article <5cnl06$ket@josie.abo.fi>, Mats Andtbacka <mandtbac@abo.fi> wrote:

>well, great. but what if i don't want it *all* done the same way, just
>one utility linked differently from the others and some stuff
>optimized less (since i care more about the size of my vi than its
>speed) and others more?

You just drop a Makefile.inc in the appropriate directories (or
modify the makefile directly, if it's a single program) and rebuild.
If you're only making a single program, and not a tree, you can
even just specify the changed options on the command line. Is this any
harder than it is with GNU/Linux?

>...and just a wee bit nonstandard, at times...
>
>(okay, cheap shot, there is no makefile standard, i know. you probably
>know what i mean in any case...)

Actually, there is a Makefile standard under BSD. This is why they
are so simple and easy to write.

cjs
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