Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#39245 closed request (invalid)

port GNU Make

Reported by: pengyu.ut@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
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Keywords: Cc: cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
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comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)

Port: make removed
Resolution: → invalid
Status: new → closed
Version: 2.1.3

The “gmake” port already exists. And Xcode comes with GNU Make. 

% /usr/bin/make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

There are some things that could be done to make it clearer that the gmake port is GNU Make. First, while the description field in gmake's portfile makes it clear that it is GNU Make, the long_description field does not do likewise. Second, the port could install a symlink to the gmake binary named "gnumake" so that one could just type gnumake to get the MacPorts gnumake instead of the Apple one. Also, while you're at it ("it" being making symlinks to the gmake binary), you could also make another symlink to gmake in ${prefix}/libexec/gnubin, which is where a lot of other GNU tools put un-"g"-prefixed symlinks to their binaries (I have it added to my $PATH)

Last edited 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager) (previous) (diff)

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Cc: egall@… added

Cc Me!

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