Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: separate build directory support for Chicken

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:51:23AM -0800, Elf wrote:
> 
> at a guess, i imagine that the reason for felix (and chicken) using gnu make
> is that a) its available for all platforms supported by chicken and b) its 
> common on all of these platforms.   i suppose if you wanted to port bsd's make
> as a mingw alternative, or make it available for cygwin, solaris, hpux, sunos,
> etc, it would be feasible.  unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, this
> hasnt been done, or if it has done its far from being widely known or 
> available.

I highly doubt that.  Have a look at
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html#platforms
pkgsrc depends heavily on BSD make, so obviously for it to work on all those
platforms means it has been ported to all these platforms.

Cheers,
Peter
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