* Reuben Thomas wrote on Sun, May 22, 2011 at 06:48:16PM CEST: > Until the GNU build system > abandons portable make (I wish it would!), we should be sticking to > portable makefiles, which after all do have real advantages.
Even if the GNU build system aims to support portable make, that doesn't mean you have to do so in your packages too. On the contrary, several packages require GNU make for some reason or another. Eventually, automake may (probably optionally) make use of GNU make features as well. Cheers, Ralf
