Actually, when you run BSD make, it does compile some, but not all, of
blackbox.  If you run gmake after you run BSD make, you'll note that it
compiles some extra items that BSD make does not.

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:21:13 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: BSD
>
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> > On 14-Feb-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > You might want to add to the INSTALL documentation that the BSDs (NetBSD,
> > > FreeBSD and OpenBSD) should use GNU make (installed as gmake on
> > > Net/FreeBSD), not BSD make, otherwise it will not compile everything
> > > successfully.
>
> I have also noticed that it partially doesn't work. It seems like BSD
> make(1) works fine for me with 0.61.1, but "make clean" doesn't work.
> "gmake clean" does work.
>
> > Does automake add gnu make isms?
>
> I would assume so. (More and more it seems that FSF/GNU is like Microsoft
> ...)
>
> > > Also, is their a repository for previous versions of blackbox?  It would
> > > be nice to have a complete versioning history in the CVS tree.
>
> > I did that when I first took over.  Every version from 0.10.0 to today is in
> > cvs.  cvs co -r blackbox-0_10_1 or whatever the version may be.
>
> That's awesome!
>
> Thanks for all your work!
>
>   Jeremy C. Reed
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