Re: Hello, dear GNU MAKE maintainer

On Tue, 2026-04-28 at 21:31 +0800, James Hu wrote:
> C compiler=C2=A0is a bit complex for me.=C2=A0I cannot architect a
> compiler,=C2=A0neither=C2=A0frontend nor backend.
>=20
> In the meantime GNU compiler collection is rolling fast from its
> regex support if i remember correctly. Does a make program need a
> modern compiler?

This entire conversation is not understandable to me.  Again I ask,
what exactly is the issue that you are trying to solve?

Are you trying to get a newer version of GNU Make on your Mac than the
one that is provided by Apple?  If so please just ask that question
clearly.  I have no idea what i386 or cross-compilation to ARM and
amd64 have to do with this.

GNU Make is written in C99 so any C compiler can compile it.  I don't
know what regex support has to do with GCC (or with GNU Make for that
matter: GNU Make doesn't use a regex library).


If you don't want to build GNU Make by hand, and you are using Homebrew
on your Mac, then just install the latest version of GNU Make that way.
For example: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/make