[illumos-Developer] illumos make

Alexander Eremin alexander.r.eremin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 03:59:29 PST 2010


Hi, Michael.

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:35, Alexander Eremin
> <alexander.r.eremin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I back to the question of whether there should be Illumos get its own Make.
>> It's well known that Sun's Make can't read the GNU Makefiles but
>> it's suitable for building NIS maps, etc.
>> Here for example another differences between Dmake and Gmake:
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=33951#33951
>> FreeBSD has its own Make in base, why not Illumos?

> I can't speak for illumos, but my personal take on this would be "is
> it necessary?" If so, why?

> Michael

 For me: it's something that I would prefer to have in base, more universal but native,
 and do not install extra.

-- 
Thanks,
 Alex




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