> Refuse the temptation and don't make infrastructure tools like gmake depend OS specific APIs. Doing so would make the world a worse place for everyone else.

> Refuse the temptation and don't make infrastructure tools like gmake depend OS specific APIs. Doing so would make the world a worse place for everyone else. Make is supposed to be the interface, implementations should be able to leverage all the platform capabilities they need, because make is part of that platform. Forcing lowest common denominator also makes world worse place, as does relying on single specific implementation.