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Re: make vs. gmake and the Athena source tree

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Mon Sep 30 04:08:45 1996

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:53:01 EDT."
             <199609292053.QAA01801@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 02:44:39 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>

In message <199609292053.QAA01801@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

>> So, let me address the reasons to use gmake that I've heard of:

You forgot the biggest one in my book: with basic make, I have yet to
see an implementation or even a proposal for simultaneously generating
multiple types of libraries (static, profiled, shared), which is both
"portable" and not unmaintainably obtuse.

		Marc

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