The make itself is actually almost the same as gnumake; however,
there are a lot of macros in use. :-) Take a look at 
/usr/share/mk/bsd.README for some information on what's going on
here. This documentation is not the best, but it will certainly get
you started.

cjs

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On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, RODRIGUES CRAIG J wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 23:49:12 -0400
> From: RODRIGUES CRAIG J <rodrigc@ecf.toronto.edu>
> To: current-users@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: What make program parses BSD makefiles?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to *BSD and don't specifically run it, but I am interested in 
> looking at BSD code for the purposes of learning about networking code, and
> porting this code to other platforms.
> 
> I am baffled by the format of the Makefiles included in the BSD source.  
> What make program uses it?  I am used to the style of makefiles used by 
> GNU make and most other Unix make programs.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> -- 
> Craig Rodrigues           
> Chemical Engineering      
> University of Toronto     
> rodrigc@ecf.toronto.edu     http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~rodrigc
>