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Subject: pmake Versus make

From: "Tom Browder" <tbrowder@cox.net>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:02:45 -0500

The docbook source tree I inherited uses pmake.  Not all distributions of
Linux have pmake (Fedora does, SuSE 9.3 doesn't).

Can anyone give a good reason to use pmake instead of make for docbook
handling (or any other project for that matter)?

Thanks.

Tom Browder