> From: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 17:23:46 -0400 > > On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 11:00 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > > (This would not be needed if 'make' used Gnulib's inttypes module.) > > I would be happy to use it, if using it didn't import a ton of other > things that require POSIX tools AND an already-working make program. > > I understand that this type of reuse makes things easier for the gnulib > folks, but for GNU make I'm not ready to drop support for platforms > that are not POSIX enough to run configure, and that don't already have > "make" available.
It's not just that: some of those platforms aren't even supported by Gnulib. For example, DJGPP (a.k.a. "MSDOS") support was AFAIK dropped, and MinGW (a.k.a. "native MS-Windows") is not supported on systems older than Windows 7 or 8.1.
