This isn't immediately relevant to the current thread, but yesterday FSF
announced Gnu make version 4 has been released. It can be compiled with
Guile (a version of Scheme) as its portable extension language.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:
> On 2013-10-09, Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If the latter, I don't intend to apply your patch: although I don't have
> > strong feelings about it, I really don't see the point. Maybe someone
> > else does. If the former, obviously we should apply it.
>
> In the interest of making it possible to build Maxima on various
> platforms, I am in favor of preserving the portability of the
> build machinery. I'll apply the patches if nobody else will.
>
> best
>
> Robert Dodier
>
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