link gmake to make (and also manpage)?

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On May 26, 2013, at 12:19 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Besides manually link gmake to make (also manpage)

Do not do this.

> is there a way in macports to like gmake to make?

MacPorts uses the default Make for the platform it's running on (i.e, the "make" program), unless a port requests a specific Make using "build.type". Xcode 4.6.2 installs GNU Make; I'm not sure if older versions ever did otherwise.

    % /usr/bin/xcrun 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-darwin11.3.0

> Also man gmake shows the following.
> Should it be updated?

The gmake port already installs the latest release, 3.82.

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