Re: superfluous GNUism in the makefile

   Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:43:45 +0700
   From: Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]>

   I've taken the package from:

   http://packages.debian.org/lenny/pmake

   I don't know whether there's a naming clash or not.

   This particular version apparently supports both $< in explicit
   rules and VPATH.

That appears to have been derived from the same source as the make I
was using.  I couldn't tell from your very complicated transcript,
involving ellipsis and multiple make targets all different from the
one I tested, whether in fact your incantations of make actually tried
to execute the commands for the c/srfi-27.(s)o rules.

   What's the name and version of this particular make?  It may be
   worth noting in the documentation that there's only a limited
   support for it.

The transcript was made with the make that comes with NetBSD 5.0.

Anyway, I apologize for wasting so much time and inbox space about
make: as I said earlier, make is an incorrigible mess, and it's not
worth the trouble trying to be portable, so Scheme48 might as well
just require GNU make.