Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <bug-gnulib@gnu.org> writes: > My conclusion is: The 'bmake' program that you tried is inferior > to what NetBSD is using, and since on GNU systems we have GNU make, > there is no need to support or even try another 'make' program.
I agree. Also, Simon I remember Debian's bmake package is very out of date. Perhaps compiling it from source will fix the issue [1]. Collin [1] https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/sjg/