[rescue] PC v. PeeCees? (was: IBM hard disk)

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Jul 13 23:13:40 CDT 2002


On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 08:51:05PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
> As someone making the switch to Solaris, I can understand
> replacing Sun tar with GNU tar, but why does Sun make needs
> replacing?

Too much stuff (GNU stuff, especially) depends on features and
peculiarities of GNU make.

> Do you have any other pointers?

Not really... I keep sun make around (as "sun.make") for stuff like
IPFilter, that requires it instead of GNU make.

Or, keep sun make as "make", and make GNU make "gmake".

Bill

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Bill Bradford     
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