What I meant is that if Gaetano has a bad make package at the head of his
PATH he may not be able to build the good one (s Catch-22).

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On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Jean-Fran�ois Mertens wrote:

>
> On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 04:13 , Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
> > One option is to install the fink make package, which gets put in
> > /sw/bin
> > and is at the head of the PATH if things are set up right, although I'm
> > not sure it's available in binary form, and may not compile as is.
> >
>
> Since feedback is requested on packages that can be moved to stable,
> I can confrm that the make package builds perfectly, and that furthermore
> I've been using it for hundreds of builds without the slightest sign of
> trouble.
>
> Further, now that xfree86-* explicitly calls /usr/bin/make, I think
> there are
> no more any incompatibility reasons not to move "make" to stable..
>
>       J F Mertens
>


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