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

[Elf]

http://keramida.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/bmake-call-for-developers/

this is about the fifth differing bmake ive run across.  none of which seems
to be particularly well supported outside of the particular bsd in which
it was written.  most of which seem to be pre-alpha.  very few of which 
seem to be 100% compat with each other.  explain to me why this would be a 
win?

-elf



On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Peter Bex wrote:

> 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