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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pmake + FreeBSD
Date: 28 Aug 1995 10:37:16 +0200
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Carl Harris <ceharris@vt.edu> wrote:
[sys_errlist]
>I'm not arguing that it shouldn't be there. I actually agree that it
>should be there. My point was more that it is a royal pain to go back
>into someone's code and rip out places where the program shouldn't be
>defining such things.
Fully agreed.
>: My original question rather was: what would pmake buy you that the
>: current (b)make does not do?
>
>Unless I'm really missing something in the (b)make man page, it has
>none of pmake's parallel make facilities (i.e. there is no customs
>daemon, there is no reginfo utility to check to see what clients are
>willing to handle parts of the make, etc). [...]
Hmm, okay, i doubt bmake would do this.
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