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- From: zoo@cygnus.com (david d 'zoo' zuhn)
- Subject: Re: make and SGI sales (unrelated)
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- Organization: Cygnus Support -- +1 415 322 3816
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:00:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <ZOO.92Jul30000014@cirdan.cygnus.com>
- In-Reply-To: flash@austin.lockheed.com's message of 30 Jul 92 02: 57:49 GMT
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- I have two unrelated issues. First the important one. Ever since
- making the switch from Sun to SGI, I have never looked back. Nor do
- I want to. Except for one thing. Make on the Sun seems to be vastly
- superior to make on SGI.
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- If you ever want to write portable Makefiles, you need to ignore most
- of the Sun extensions to make, since no one else does them in a
- compatible way.
-
- The documentation of make in the SGI manuals is spartan at best.
- Also, some of the best features of Sun make are not available on
- the SGI, like shell assignements of macros; e.g.,
-
-
- Might I suggest GNU make? It works very nicely on a wide variety of
- machines, so you can use its extended features and not worry about it
- not being available on any given machine. It's the second thing I
- bring over to any new box (bash being the first).
-
- GNU Make is available from prep.ai.mit.edu as /pub/gnu/make-3.62.tar.Z.
-
- david d 'zoo' zuhn |
- cygnus support | "Man made it, man can fix it."
- zoo@cygnus.com | -- anonymous biker in South Dakota
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