make, bmake and gmake

Saifi Khan saifi.khan at datasynergy.org
Tue Oct 27 08:43:54 PDT 2009


On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

> Saifi Khan wrote:
> > > > Is there a difference between 'make' and 'bmake' on DragonFly
> > > > BSD 2.4.1 ?
> > > 
> > > make is "our" make utility which belongs to our base. It's the very
> > > same make utility that is used to build world and kernel or to
> > > checkout the git src repository when you type 'make src-checkout'
> > > inside /usr. make(1) can only parse our own Makefiles.
> > > 
> > 
> > One more query i have is that, the 'make' referred to in the
> > parallism analysis posted by Simon Shubert is the native
> > DragonFly BSD make, is that correct ? 
> 
> Yes.  Standard buildworld/buildkernel procedure.
> 
> > i would like to run the tests on my AMD64 dual core box and
> > hopefully can contribute some data for Simon Shubert's analysis.
> 
> if I find the time I'll commit a small script which will do all the
> processing.
> 
> cheers
>   simon
> 

Thank you Simon.

Would you like to suggest a link, from where i can download the script ?


thanks
Saifi.






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