Re: Merging DragonFly make and NetBSD make

["Dmitri Nikulin" <dnikulin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/19/06, Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Has anyone got plans for this? Sure, it's not _highly_ important, but it
> would be nice not to have to do bmake but just make when installing the
> pkgsrc ports now when pkgsrc is the official package management system.
> Im not a C programmer so I cant do it.

How about creating a universal BSD-licensed make which can then
replace NetBSD's make (for NetBSD, so we Net guys can use perfectly
useful flags like -C) AND GNU make. As far as I can tell they're not
all mutually exclusive, and if they are, it's still possible to have
compatibility flags or environment variables.

I *am* a C programmer so I could look into it, but it'd be great to
hear from resident make authority Max Okumoto. make source seems to be
a lot larger than I could ever have expected so perhaps there's a lot
of magic to it. Or it's proof we need to start over...

 -- Dmitri Nikulin