I get the impression that GNU Make is a fairly hard program to update - to the best of my knowledge it still can't handle filenames with spaces in them, for exa

I get the impression that GNU Make is a fairly hard program to update - to the best of my knowledge it still can't handle filenames with spaces in them, for example. So for me it's a lot like a lot of GNU projects - great idea, but a little bit long in the tooth and unlikely to substantially improve at this point.