Re: [Tinycc-devel] README needs fixing?

[Michael B. Smith]

The way apple builds Darwin is sometimes a marvel to behold.

 

From: tinycc-devel-bounces+address@hidden [mailto:tinycc-devel-bounces+address@hidden On Behalf Of Raphaël Londeix
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 9:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] README needs fixing?

 

IMHO, this should be:

 

"Note: This Makefile is only compatible with GNU make"

 

The binary can have arbitrary names, although I'm surprised that gmake is not also present when make actually is gnu make ...

 

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:13 PM, David Mertens <address@hidden> wrote:

I think your latter suggestion is best. After all, older Macs might still need to use gmake, right?

David

 

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 6:00 AM, John Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi...

In the README... I see this:

"
        Note: For OSX and FreeBSD, gmake should be used instead of make.
"

So... I tried using gmake, and it failed. "gmake not found".

I tried "make --version", and I see this:

        GNU Make 3.81

So... basically that is ALREADY GMAKE.

We can change the READ ME to this:

        Note: For FreeBSD, gmake should be used instead of make.

Or even better:

        Note: if "make --version" does not say "GNU Make" then use gmake instead.

...

It would have saved me a few hours of precious wasted time.

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