On Mon, 13 May 2002, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Given the whole GNU make vs BSD make incompatibility, I was curious about > why some porting schemes use the latter. Are there any advantages to it?
I have no idea. I tried to get one of the GNU-Darwin developers to talk about it a little, but for some reason he wouldn't really give me any direct answers -- just lots of "this is standard & proven and has allowed us to port thousands of packages quickly" and no response at all to my questions about "yeah but it break things, so why duplicate what is already installed by the devtools?" He just said he didn't have the resources to make things to work for Fink; my comments that Fink doesn't have resources to not break things for GNU-Darwin [or anyone else, if things are going right] went unanswered. I'm still trying to figure it out. I know some developers need features that BSD-make offers that GNU-make apparently doesn't, but I don't see why the two can't be patched to match each other. This smells like an upstream problem to me, where Fink is suffering headaches because the two projects aren't willing to get into sync, for whatever reasons. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
