> There is truth in what you say, however, if you think GNU tools are free of technical debt or feature creep, look into how ./configure works, as an example.

> There is truth in what you say, however, if you think GNU tools are free of technical debt or feature creep, look into how ./configure works, as an example. ./configure is a sad thing, and the cluster of madness around it is even worse (autoconf, automake, and the ridiculous libtool). However, most gnu stuff is excellent, including gnu make. Fortunately, today most unix systems are sufficiently posix-compliant so that you can ship a gnumakefile that builds your program directly without much fuss.