On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Juergen Tritthardt wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> > 
> > I have a number of sources which make substantial use of GNU make features,
> > which I'd like to compile under NetBSD/alpha 1.5.2.  I am trying to
> > determine what the best approach would be, either to try to convert the
> > Makefiles or to find and install GNU make.  Any advice?  If I experiment
> > with the latter route, is there a package already available for GNU make or
> > should I download it?


> AFAIK GNU make is part of the base distribution, just use "gmake" instead
> of "make".
no its not.


it is available though.  

pkg_add -v ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/alpha/All/gmake

will download and install the precompiled binary.  Then just use 'gmake'.

Or you can

cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/gmake && make && make install

assuming you have pkgsrc on your machine.  Go to www.netbsd.org and follow
the 'software for netbsd' link to get info on pkgsrc.

-Dan