On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Hauke Fath wrote:

> At 20:45 Uhr +0100 09.11.1998, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Marc Coevoet wrote:
> 
> >> When I build a kernel, I need to use the 'make' distributed with netbsd,
> >> make-3.76 or so doesn't work. Same for compiler tools as cpp.
> >> Why's that?
> >
> >Because we've made custom changes to make. :-)
> 
> Huh? The 4.4BSD derived make (which, according to the PSD tutorial that
> comes with NetBSD, is derived from the Berkeley Sprite project's "pmake"
> tool) probably has common roots with GNU make in Unix 7 or so...
> 
> Although gmake is in widespread use, it is not "the" make tool.

Ok, I didn't catch that Marc was talking about gmake. But I do think we've
made customizations to pmake which are local. I seem to remember having to
rebuild make to get kernels to build at one point. :-)

Take care,

Bill