Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Still, the standards.texi authors found that additional flexibility so > useful that they explicitly document it as required for a set of tools > (node: Utilities in Makefiles).
Citing it: Use the following @code{make} variables to run those programs: $(AR) $(BISON) $(CC) $(FLEX) $(INSTALL) $(LD) $(LDCONFIG) $(LEX) $(MAKE) $(MAKEINFO) $(RANLIB) $(TEXI2DVI) $(YACC) Yes, this makes sense for programs for which there are multiple alternatives. But "mkdir -p"? How many different versions are there of it? Bruno