> Then some smart people ... not sure which make you are criticizing here.. BSD Make (aka PMake) is imho light years beyond GnuMake in terms of coherence of t

> Then some smart people ... not sure which make you are criticizing here.. BSD Make (aka PMake) is imho light years beyond GnuMake in terms of coherence of the extensions to the base language and usability.. unfortunately most people in linux land think make==gnumake, and so it is hardly used outside of the base build system of BSD systems..