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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Help with utility identification..
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In article <5cvlbj$ll3@uriah.heep.sax.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes:
>...but you could add as well that /usr/bin/make is BSD make, not GNU
>make.

It would be handy if they were a little less different :-)  There are an
increasing number of programs that won't build with BSD make.

-- Richard
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