fault toleratant shell scripts BACK ON TOPIC

[Walter Vaughan]

Fairlight wrote:

>You'll never BELIEVE what Brian K. White said here...:
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>Given the above, and given that the supposed point of the utility is to make
>more robust scripts, maybe it shouldn't be trusted much even when it becomes
>available?
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>Sorry, but just because something doesn't compile out of the box on SCO
>doesn't mean it's not trustworthy, nor does it mean it's riddled with bad
>assumptions.  More likely, it simply has prerequisites that SCO simply
>doesn't fulfill.
>
>mark->
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Off the bat I got stopped at missing pthreads libraries on a 5.0.4 box
which happended to already have gmake, but on FreeBSD I've wasted
almost 1/2 hour trying to figure out the command to make the "make" default
be gmake. I was hoping there was some sort of "use.make" script like 
"use.perl".
Okay, I claim utter stupidity.
<off topic for filePro>
Anyone know how to make Freebsd use gmake instead of BSD make
with some environmental/shell setting?
(besides typing gmake... doh!)
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