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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!sunic!news.lth.se!jh From: jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Suggestion (was Re: What's "FreeBSD"?) Date: 27 Jul 1993 07:38:47 GMT Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <232m28$g2@nic.lth.se> References: <22up8o$pvb@introl.introl.com> <22ut4j$53o@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <explorer.743637064@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> <CAsEBG.4tC@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: baal.efd.lth.se Since all utilities are updated, would it not be time to switch make for gnu-make? Gmake has several advantages over bsd-make, and it is supported by the FSF. It should be easy to write a perl-script that translate most of the existing Makefiles. (Might even try myself :-) -- Joergen Haegg jh@efd.lth.se System manager @ efd Phone: international +46 46 107492 Lund Institute of Technology Snailmail: DDG, Maildelivery 7, BOX 118 Fax: +46 46 104013 S-221 00 LUND, Sweden