Re: What is BSD make?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <87vdvxjzof.fsf%inbox.ru@localhost>, Aleksej Saushev  
<asau%inbox.ru@localhost> wrote:
>Peter Bex <Peter.Bex%xs4all.nl@localhost> writes:
>
>GNU make does provide default suffix rules for ".c.o" and such,
>they are just built in, hardcoded, and you can't go and simply
>change them by means of editing text file. You can easily prove
>it, just write "hello world" program, call it "hw.c", and type
>"gmake hw".

This is incorrect. Not only you can override the suffix rules like
in every other make, but also gnu make also supports pattern rules
which are a lot more general and flexible than suffix rules. This
is the major shortcoming of pmake [or bmake - whatever you want to
call it]. It is a few hours of code to implement pattern rules,
and once this is done, pmake will be as flexible as gmake.

christos