Subject: Re: bug#5191: 23.1.90; Make target compile-main fails under GNU/Linux Kernel 2.6.16

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:26:36 -0500

Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]> writes:

> Yet another idea: how about we require GNU make?  Other GNU projects
> require GNU make already, like GCC.  GNU make is widely available on
> all free systems, and even on proprietary unixes, I've personally
> never seen a machine used for software development that did not have
> GNU make.

What about the BSDs?  My impression is that they still use their own
Make version, no?