On Arch Linux it's a dependency of both gdb and make, but it seems that other distributions go out of their way to avoid shipping it (Debian e.g. builds gdb wit

On Arch Linux it's a dependency of both gdb and make, but it seems that other distributions go out of their way to avoid shipping it (Debian e.g. builds gdb without a hard dependency on it, and you need to install a separate make-guile package to get guile-enabled make).