Warren wrote: > > So far, automake has not been using gmake, so why should it > > now start doing so? > > Because gmake is all but ubiquitous, and has been so for a decade. > > The only exception I can think of is the BSDs, which still stubbornly > stick to BSD make, apparently for political reasons. I think we'd see a > change there PDQ if the autotools started requiring GNU make.
Just because you *can* be a gorilla doesn't mean you *should* be a gorilla. The BSDs have their good reasons to want to avoid GPL'd code, especially GPL3. H
