Hello, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 05:41:52AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Note: Debian already contains pmake, also derived from NetBSD's make. > > There's also FreeBSD's pmake as freebsd-make in the freebsd-buildutils > package. Yes, but after 15+ years these two have diverged. There is software that needs bmake to build, and doesn't work with freebsd-make or Debian's older pmake. > > But pmake is a manual sync from NetBSD and thus difficult to maintain > > (and as a consequence outdated). > > bmake also seems to be synced from NetBSD from time to time. And as > stated on its web page it seems to be just a portability fork of > NetBSD's pmake, so it might make more sense to ask the Debian pmake > maintainer (CCed) if he is interested in switching to that version > instead of uploading yet another pmake implementation? Yes, synced by a upstream that does the portability stuff for us (and has been doing this actively for the last 10+ years). The Debian pmake maintainer has been notified about bmake (see #476267 and #605623) some time ago and didn't respond. But I confess I have not contacted him personally and am interested in his opinion about this. > > Bmake has a active upstream. > > Well the pmake Debian package has the same upstream as bmake, so that > by itself does not seem to be an advantage over the others. :) I disagree: bmake has the same up(up)stream as pmake, but pmake has a different upstream than bmake :) Regards, -- Jeroen Schot
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