Of course, you could add your own /usr/local/bin/make:

#/bin/sh
if test $# -eq 1 && test "$1" == "love"; then
    echo make: Hey, I\'m a computer and don\'t have the apparatus for that. \{Sulks off and cries to itself.\}
else
    /usr/bin/make $*
fi



—
Ed Skinner, ed at flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/, 480-492-7664

> On Jul 31, 2015, at 9:40 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:09 AM, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015, at 16:51, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:
>>> make: don't know how to make love.
>>> 
>>> is the answer I remember.
>>> 
>>> FreeBSD make actually says: "make: don't know how to make love. Stop"
>>> 
>>> 	jaap
>> 
>> FreeBSD has a commit dated April 1998, with the description "Use
>> historically correct error message in some cases, optionally."
>> 
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=35483
> 
> We replaced FreeBSD’s make with NetBSD’s bmake. The NetBSD
> make, evidently, is more humorless :) Maybe I should commit a local change
> to bring it back :)
> 
> Warner
> 
> 
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