[ freetds-Patches-575063 ] make easy

Lowden, James K LowdenJK at bernstein.com
Fri Jun 28 13:16:10 EDT 2002


> > From: Steve Langasek [mailto:vorlon at netexpress.net]
> > Sent: June 28, 2002 11:34 AM
> > 
> > > The attached patch should remove the need for GNU make.  
> >
> > This would mean we could remove all the caveats in the UG (not to
mention
> > questions here) about which make to use.  I'm going to try it on my
boxes;
> > if it works for me with Gnu and with BSD make, and no one objects, I'll
> > commit the changes.  
> 
> Does that mean it will even work with grotesque make implementations,
> like the one shipped with AIX? :)

Oh, man!  You and your reality checks!  OK, suppose the UG said something
like this:

<snip>
FreeTDS needs a reasonably capable modern "make", something that will
compile and link your code, not moan and complain about it.  Like FreeTDS
itself, such make's are freely available; examples include GNU make from
<url> and BSD make from <other url>.  

If the vendor of your expensive proprietary trailing-edge OS ships a "make"
that others or even you have called "broken", "grotesque", or "brain-dead",
please avail yourself of something that works, or send us a patch that lets
it build with your system, too. 
</snip>

Seriously, BSD make is very capable, and I have very little experience with
others.  There's no reason (that I can see) to require Gnu specifically, but
I take your word for it that there are some really bad ones out there.  I'm
glad you pointed that out.  

I'm actually a NetBSD vampire; by day I make my way through the strange
world of Microsoft.  Theirs is called "nmake", and I can't think of a single
nice thing to say about it except that at least they didn't call it "make".


Regards, 

--jkl



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