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From: bill@qstools.com (Bill Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with utility identification..
Date: 31 Jan 1997 15:06:58 GMT
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ishwar rattan (3CQBJOZ@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu) wrote:
: How do I fugure out if /usr/bin/make is gnu-make?
: Is there a way to figure these things out? I am running
: stock FreeBSD-2.1.5.

In general, the GNU tools respond to a command line option
'-v', which reports the version.  So try 'make -v'.

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Bill Cox                          Software Janitor
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