[Issue 17852] cannot compile phobos on freebsd

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17852

Jonathan M Davis <issues.dlang at jmdavisProg.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Jonathan M Davis <issues.dlang at jmdavisProg.com> ---
So, what's the bug then? dmd, phobos, etc. are written to build with GNU's make
on POSIX systems, and Digital Mars' make on Windows. That means using gmake on
FreeBSD rather than make. The wiki should be updated to reflect the fact that
gmake is needed on FreeBSD (or probably any POSIX system that isn't Linux), but
that's not a bug in Phobos or dmd or any of that. Using BSD make for FreeBSD
would mean either having different makefiles for FreeBSD and Linux rather than
sharing them like we do now, or it would mean forcing Linux users to install
and use BSD's make.

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