Bang for the Buck, comparing Celerons to Xeons (and PIIIs?)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 12:53:21AM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote:

> > Actually, if you run GNU make, it should not matter which OS you use.
> 
> Sure don't. I use Sun's make, ld, as, etc...on Solaris x86, even with egcs.
> The reccomended usage to to put /usr/ccs/bin in your path before any of the
> GNU paths, to make sure you use Sun's. I have heard of people using the GNU
> bintools on Solaris, but I've never seen it reccomended by Sun engineers.

I agree that using Sun's bintools is a good idea, but make isn't bintool.
I use GNU make on Solaris all the time.

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 - Matt