On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:12:37AM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> > Do you want to add an INSTALL.FreeBSD or similar file at top level?
> > Feel free to copy any applicable text from INSTALL.Linux. Or, if you
> > think it's better, please feel free to edit INSTALL.Linux to include
> > FreeBSD instructions also, and then we can rename it to just INSTALL.
>
> The combination of INSTALL.Linux and INSTALL.userspace are very close
> to the installation instructions for FreeBSD, so I think renaming it
> makes sense - something like the diff below (as well as
> s/INSTALL.Linux/INSTALL/ throughout the other INSTALL docs).
This looks good to me, thanks. I'll assume that you'll fold this into
your larger patch when it's ready.
> Also it turns out that FreeBSD's make doesn't like the Makefiles, so I
> just changed it to be explicit about GNU make.
BSD make is supposed to work--I've worked hard to avoid GNU make
extensions. Sorry about that. I sent out a patch series that fixes
the two obvious problems that I found, starting here:
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2012-July/019530.html
Still, I'm happy to strengthen the recommendation or weaken the claim
toward BSD make, if you like.
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