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Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 9:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] README needs fixing?

IMHO, this should be:

"Note: This Makefile is only compatible with GNU make"

The binary can have arbitrary names, although I'm surprised that gmake is not 
also present when make actually is gnu make ...

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:13 PM, David Mertens 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I think your latter suggestion is best. After all, older Macs might still need 
to use gmake, right?
David

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 6:00 AM, John Smith 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi...

In the README... I see this:

"
        Note: For OSX and FreeBSD, gmake should be used instead of make.
"

So... I tried using gmake, and it failed. "gmake not found".

I tried "make --version", and I see this:

        GNU Make 3.81

So... basically that is ALREADY GMAKE.

We can change the READ ME to this:

        Note: For FreeBSD, gmake should be used instead of make.

Or even better:

        Note: if "make --version" does not say "GNU Make" then use gmake 
instead.

...

It would have saved me a few hours of precious wasted time.

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