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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!205.252.116.190!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with utility identification.. Date: 1 Feb 1997 14:52:35 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5cvlbj$ll3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <97030.1445343CQBJOZ@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu> <5cspof$j7n$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34993 David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com> wrote: > 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 > > Virtually all GNU programs accpept the "--help" and "--version" options. > So try these and the out put should tell all. ...but you could add as well that /usr/bin/make is BSD make, not GNU make. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)