> I for one would be glad if automake required GNU make, since it > could make use of a lot of useful features which currently aren't > allowed. Similar to autoconf not requiring a POSIX shell, depite > the fact that non-POSIX shells are so far obsolete they are > irrelevant.
Are there any tools to spot GNUisms in Makefiles? If not, it seems like this would be a useful thing to develop.
