Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] BSD make

From: Bruno Haible <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 22:38:54 +0200

Collin Funk wrote:
> To save you time in the future testing either FreeBSD or NetBSD make
> should be enough. A portable version of NetBSD make is maintained and
> that one is used by FreeBSD [1] [2]. OpenBSD seems to have made their
> own changes and maintained it themselves since the operating system was
> forked from NetBSD.

Thanks for the hint. Indeed, the two directories
  freebsd - src/contrib/bmake
  netbsd  - src/usr.bin/make
appear to be quite similar.

OpenBSD make behaves differently in VPATH builds, as we have recently seen.
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-06/msg00129.html>

Bruno