Re: unix make to GNU make transition

[mcmahill]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Paul D. Smith wrote:


>   wv> I just tested on makefile. Here is the first problem,.
> 
>   wv> The old version has :
>   wv> ALL:
>   wv> !if a==b
>   wv> do this
>   wv> !else
>   wv> do that
>   wv> !endif
> 
> I'm not extremely familiar with it, but this might be BSD make.

in (Net)BSD make it's

.if 
.else
.endif

with an address like @ibm.com, maybe its AIX.

> On the other hand, if what you're using is BSD make you can just go get
> the code for that, compile it for whatever system you need to build on
> (assuming it's UNIX--unlike GNU make, AFAIK BSD make won't build easily
> on anything except UNIX) and continue to use it.

it should build on cygwin without much trouble.


-Dan