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On BSD, the default "make" is not GNU make, and Makefiles are incompatible (one uses "ifdef", the other ".ifdef"... what a difference!), so if you're compiling under a BSD, you need to use "gmake" instead of "make".

author Alberto Bertogli
2004-09-19 04:32:46 UTC
committer Alberto Bertogli
2007-07-15 13:25:05 UTC
parent de24d12a14940b8a7b8b4b395d6fb926ab9972ea
On BSD, the default "make" is not GNU make, and Makefiles are incompatible (one uses "ifdef", the other ".ifdef"... what a difference!), so if you're compiling under a BSD, you need to use "gmake" instead of "make".

On BSD, the default "make" is not GNU make, and Makefiles are incompatible
(one uses "ifdef", the other ".ifdef"... what a difference!), so if you're
compiling under a BSD, you need to use "gmake" instead of "make".
INSTALL +2 -0 
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 32555e1..fc86de0 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ ldconfig
 There are other small options that might be useful (like compiling with
 debugging information), you can check the Make.conf file for more information.
 
+If you use any BSD, or if the default "make" is not GNU make, use "gmake"
+instead.
 
 After installing, you're ready to use the library; you can see how by looking
 at the manpage with "man libjio".