[vox-tech] gmake and nmake <PLEASE ignore this thread, I'm stupid>

Shawn P. Neugebauer vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:03:41 -0700


On Monday 16 June 2003 12:56 am, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> Jay obvious figured it out, but for the archives:
>
> The GNU Make is often called `gmake`, even though the binary is called
> `make`.  I sometimes symlink `make` to `gmake` if I have multiple versions
> of make installed.
>
> I think Debian doesn't symlink `make` to `gmake`, but as I recall I think
> Redhat and Mandrake have the symlink by default.
> [snip]

Indeed, RH gives a symlink 'gmake' to the make binary.