On Jun 11, 2013, at 08:46, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >>> Besides manually link gmake to make (also manpage), is there a way in >>> macports to like gmake to make? >> >> Why would you want to do that? > > This will lead to mixing BSD and GNU utilities--probably a bad idea unless > you're always accounting for this. Most people don't, and that's why gnumake > is not called make on bsd systems.
On OS X (back to 10.2, possibly earlier), /usr/bin/make is already GNU make; it's merely an older version than the one in MacPorts. $ /usr/bin/make --version GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0 $ /opt/local/bin/gmake --version GNU Make 3.82 Built for x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
