I've just completed replacing DragonFly's legacy "make" program with the latest version of NetBSD's "bmake" program, version 2012-10-10, in the base system. The program name is still "make" of course.

If at all convenient, I recommend performing a full build sequence (buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld, upgrade). This has been tested on both platforms and works.

I believe it is possible to use "quickworld", but it will be trickier. You would probably have to do something like "make quickworld; make installworld" and then when you want to update kernel, you won't be able to use "make buildkernel". You'd have to use the command "make nativekernel" for each new kernel until the next buildworld is executed.

For the most part the change should be transparent, but bmake does dedicate one line of output for each target, so the build log will be more verbose now.

John

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