On May 22, 9:12 pm, "didier deshommes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jason Grout
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've had someone send me a Mac OSX on x86 port, but I need access to
> > such a machine to try it out and make it part of the saclib distro. I
> > have access to solaris-on-x86 boxes, so I may get that port going
> > eventually. One known issue with qepcad on some linux distros that I
> > still haven't addressed is that on some systems that use GNU make as
> > their "make", there is no program called "gmake" on the system, and
> > Qepcad uses "gmake" explicitly. I'll take care of that at some future
>
> The make vs gmake distinction is only visible in non-Linux OSes, It
> think. In Linux gmake is very often make, but things are different in
> *BSD, Solaris, etc.
It doesn't matter too much as long as you invoke any make subprocess
with ${MAKE-make} instead of [make|gmake] as long as the global make
process is properly invoked. In Sage we already need gmake in a couple
places, i.e. freetype creates gmake specific makefiles, eclib and
FLINT as well as the now optional Frobby use gmake specific
constructs, so from the perspective of porting Sage it doesn't make a
difference and I see little benefit in porting over the current code
to BSDish make.
> didier
Cheers,
Michael
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