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Group: comp.lang.forth · Group Profile
Author: spam
Date: Jul 27, 2008 17:28

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Marcel Hendrix wrote:
> To satisfy my curiosity, what is so bad about 'gmake' that it should be
> circumvented?
>
> -marcel

There is *NOTHING* wrong with gmake, but it has capabilities not included
in standard makes often shipped with *BSD* and Unix variants. If one does
require gmake, it is considered good technique to advise potential porters
that there exists an environmental dependancy upon gnu make. That's all.

Rob Sciuk

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