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From: steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Re: How to get Mach and documentation
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.213225.4716@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 19 Mar 91 21:32:25 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.184859.11857@cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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mrt@MRT.MACH.CS.CMU.EDU (Mary Thompson) writes:

> At the moment, the makefiles that come with this release depend on the Mach
> 2.5/6 make program to build. This program requires a BSD source license so
> we cannot release it for anonymous FTP. This limits the value of this release
> to just reading the sources. It is our intent to switch to a non-licensed
> version of make as soon as possible.

For those interested in building Mach3.0 the modifications required to
use GNUMake 3.59 are fairly small, mostly changing from the Mach make
way of implementing a feature to the GNU way.

Steve
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