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Public domain POSIX make

by donmcc on 8/1/22, 12:32 AM with 39 comments

• by dwheeler on 8/1/22, 3:20 AM

  Sadly, the POSIX specification for "make" is notoriously limited. They only spec'ed what everyone could agree on, and that wasn't much. I'm sure there are cases where a make that only implements the POSIX spec is fine.. and if this is useful, great!! However, many projects that use "make" will outgrow it. I think many people just assume GNU make when they use a make; GNU make has lots of additional capabilities that turn out to be useful, and it runs practically everywhere.

  Your mileage may vary.

• by ainar-g on 8/1/22, 11:35 AM

  That's pretty neat! But is there a link to the “future POSIX standard”? A few months ago I tried looking for it on https://pubs.opengroup.org/, but couldn't.

• by azalemeth on 8/1/22, 6:19 AM

  Genuine question: what's wrong with GNU make?

• by bragr on 8/1/22, 2:52 AM

  >This version is also dedicated to the public domain

  IANAL but under US copyright law this is a meaningless statement as it's not possible to disclaim ownership. You can only permissively license - though reading the LICENSE file, this is what they are doing in practice.