Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Yes, gmake is portable in that its source is available and can be compiled on many platforms. But I think you mean,
rather, that gmake supports makefiles which are non-portable in that they do not conform to POSIX standards.
What has happened over the years in the Unix world is that gmake is more
commonly used than pure POSIX make.
POSIX make is used to build systems and some commercial applications; gmake is
used to build everything else, pretty much.
E.g., POSIX make builds OpenBSD and runs the overall builds in the OpenBSD ports tree, but the individual ports
themselves whilst building tend to use gmake.
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