Hi y'all,
Just a couple of points about Linux' "non-standard behavior" and
compilers-
1) The 'gmake' tirade was exactly backwards; the several of the INSTALL
files I've read lately pointed out that the app I was compiling with make
needed gmake on FreeBSD or BSD.
2) Nolan was right on the money concerning GNU software compiling on
Linux - My racing partner is an AIX programmer, I use Slackware, I tried
SCO Open Desktop and I played with Solaris 7 until I got totally lost in
/etc. The same source tarball, stamped GPL, compiles just fine on all 4
platforms. AND FreeBSD.
3) Like Nolan, I'll have to concede that as a scripting shell, bash is
not-ready-for-prime-time --- which is why every Linux distro I know of
ships with pdksh. Even so, on my box root's shell is Korn, and my user
accounts use bash. If I'm not running a lot of scripts, bash is much more
comfy.
I like Slack better than FreeBSD because it's more linear in design than
any other Unix variant I know, except maybe AIX. But it's a cryin shame
some fool's giving the "little devil" a black eye.
My 2 cents, yours for free
Doc
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