depends_build

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 17, 2011, at 03:27, M.E. O'Neill wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Mac OS X (well, Xcode) has BSD make. 
> 
> Uh, no -- at least not the way you seem to be thinking.
> 
> % /usr/bin/make --version
> GNU Make 3.81
> Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.0
> 
> % /Developer/usr/bin/make --version
> GNU Make 3.81
> Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.0
> 
> OS X does have BSD make, but it's installed as `bsdmake'.  Please do NOT put a build dependency on gmake from Macports unless it really does absolutely need the-latest-and-greatest GNU make.

Sorry, you're right of course. I guess I was thinking of some other utilities on Mac OS X, like sed, which are BSD versions, whereas Linux typically has GNU versions, and this difference can sometimes affect ports.