>  I've personally never felt the need to use Busybox make, for two
> reasons :
>  - make is a development tool and has its place on development machines
> more than embedded boxes ;
>  - It happens that GNU make (as well as GNU tar, surprisingly) has been
> cleanly written and cleanly packaged, compiles easily with the uClibc
> as well as the glibc, and produces a decently sized binary instead of
> the usual GNU behemoths. (I suspect a direct intervention of the Lord
> into the FSF developer pool.) So whenever I need to build a make,
> GNU make is actually quite usable.

 And I forgot the third, and most important, reason:

 - Contrary to what I've believed for ages, there's apparently no such
thing as a "make" applet in Busybox. (Good thing it's not needed, then.)
 Which explains very well why you were confused, Harald: I was even
more confused than you were. XD

-- 
 Laurent
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