They were just wrappers around `cmake` and caused cmake with the Makefile generator
to mark in-tree builds as dirty, since it would overwrite them with its own.
Fixes#6264
cmake can (and should) be used to invoke the build/install command,
instead of directly calling `ninja` or `make`, via the `--build DIR
[--target TARGET]` syntax.
This will use the native BSD bmake build system instead of the previous
hack which spawned an instance of `gmake` (GNU Make) if installed to
perform the build.
These messages are automatically generated as if `-w` were specified
at the gmake command line. The `--no-print-directory` option supresses
these messages.
Smarter BSDmakefile that automatically calls gmake to build the targets,
even including `-j` if provided. README.md can be simplified to remove
`gmake` references from build instructions for BSD users.
On BSD platforms, a BSD-specific BSDmakefile is searched for and used
before any generic Makefile. We can use this to emit an informational
message directing the user to use GNU Make instead of relying on the
user's recognizing of random build failures on syntax errors as a sign
to switch to GNU Make.
(Random fact: this same trick also applies to GNU Make, which searches
for a GNUmakefile before using Makefile)
