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Re: Apple's thinking of changing default make to bsdmake: msg#00217
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Re: Apple's thinking of changing default make to bsdmake |
Corrin Lakeland wrote:
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:05, Martin Costabel wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier to make "make" an essential package, like we have
for tar, for example? We could do this soon and then be
independent of Apple's decision?
I seem to recall a very long thread here that overall concluded fink should
use Apple's tools as much as possible rather than try to provide Linux on
osX.
I am personally in favor of replacing as little as possible of MacOSX's
tools. I don't have openssl, make, man, fileutils and some of these
other replacement packages installed. Yet...
I mean, I prefer gmake to bsd make, but fink is supposed to work in osX with
minimal replacement of tools.
... the problem is that very many of the packages ported by fink
*require* GNU make. They just won't compile without.
The question never was to drop GNU make completely, but to make
/usr/bin/make by default equivalent to bsdmake instead of gnumake as it
is right now. Fink has the choice of either use /usr/bin/make - in this
case we need to know what /usr/bin/make is, and when Apple changes this,
everything breaks - or supply its own make - not because it is better,
but because it might be more stable than Apple's, at least in the
hypothetical situation that gave rise to this thread.
In reality, this whole discussion is pointless now. Jordan Hubbard has
withdrawn his proposal to change /usr/bin/make (being evil-minded, I
would say this happened after Wilfredo Sanchez claimed that it was *not*
he who was responsible for the linking of /usr/bin/make to gnumake, so
the real reason for this proposed change, namely getting rid of
everything touched by Wilfredo Sanchez, had disappeared ;-) ).
--
Martin
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